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Paul Marchand, F.M.C.
By (Author) Charles W. Chesnutt
Edited by Dean McWilliams
Princeton University Press
Princeton University Press
23rd September 2014
United States
Tertiary Education
Fiction
813.4
Paperback
214
Width 152mm, Height 229mm
28g
Evoking the atmosphere of early-nineteenth-century New Orleans and the deadly aftermath of the San Domingo slave revolution, this historical novel begins as its protagonist puzzles over the seemingly prophetic dream of an aged black praline seller in the famous Place d'Armes. Paul Marchand, a free man of color living in New Orleans in the 1820s, is