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Paul Marchand, F.M.C.

Hardcover • 2016 • 1. edition

Paul Marchand, F.M.C.

By Charles W. Chesnutt

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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 despised by white society for being a quadroon, yet he is a proud, wealthy, well-educated man. In this city where great wealth and great poverty exis...Show more

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9780691631820

Publisher

Princeton University Press

Published year

2016

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1

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Paul Marchand, F.M.C.

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Hardcover

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