The Breton Black-Foot (Paperback) by Claudine Fisher

9781976266676. New condition. Trade paperback. Language: English. Pages: 214. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 214 p. Paris in Paris Out, 3. The Breton Black-Foot, recounts how the child, Mathurin Gu�gan, leaves Brittany and moves to Paris. As an adult participant of the 1848 Parisian Revolution, he decides to settle in Algeria. His seafaring captain grandfather was cod fishing in the waters of Newfoundland; his Acadian grandmother, caught in the French and Indian War or Great Upheaval as a girl, had to return to France via England; Mathurin's soldiering father fought in the Napoleonic wars. The ascendants' varied experiences act as counterpoints to the lives of Mathurin's descendants, Pieds-Noirs or Black-Foot French, during the chaotic war of independence for Algeria (1954-1962.) The Breton Blackfoot, being both prequel and sequel, ends the trilogy of Paris In Paris Out. In book 1, The Reluctant Paris Rebel, Mathurin Gu�gan, experienced the 1848 revolution. Book 2, The Southbound French Settlers focused on Mathurin's voyage and his homesteading at the Castiglione colony, near Algiers. Book 3, The Breton Black-Foot evokes the good and bad times of mid-twentieth century Algiers, just before Moslems gained independence from France.

The Breton Black-Foot, recounts how the child, Mathurin Guegan, leaves Brittany and moves to Paris. As an adult participant of the 1848 Parisian Revolution, he decides to settle in Algeria. His seafaring captain grandfather was cod fishing in the waters of Newfoundland; his Acadian grandmother, caught in the French and Indian War or Great Upheaval as a girl, had to return to France via England; Mathurin's soldiering father fought in the Napoleonic wars. The ascendants' varied experiences act as counterpoints to the lives of Mathurin's descendants, Pieds-Noirs or Black-Foot French, during the chaotic war of independence for Algeria (1954-1962.) The Breton Blackfoot, being both prequel and sequel, ends the trilogy of Paris In Paris Out. In book 1, The Reluctant Paris Rebel, Mathurin Guegan, experienced the 1848 revolution. Book 2, The Southbound French Settlers focused on Mathurin's voyage and his homesteading at the Castiglione colony, near Algiers. Book 3, The Breton Black-Foot evokes the good and bad times of mid-twentieth century Algiers, just before Moslems gained independence from France.

Book format	Paperback
Fiction/nonfiction	Fiction
Genre	Literature & Fiction
Publication date	September, 2017
Pages	214
Series title	Paris In Paris Out
Number in series	3
Publisher	Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Original languages	English
Language	English
Character	Mathurin Gugan
Assembled product dimensions (l x w x h)	9.02 x 5.98 x 0.49 in
Assembled product weight	0.7000 lb
Bisac subject heading	Fiction