Louisiane (or Louisiana and Bagatelle) is a novel written by Maurice Denuzière. Released in 1977, it is the first book in Denuzière's Louisiane series and tells of Clarence Dandrige meeting Virginie Trégan.
Characters[]
- Clarence Dandridge
- Virginie Trégan (called Caroline in some translations)
Publisher's summary[]
1830-1864. From the golden age of the Cotton King to the end of the Civil War, from prosperity based on slavery to the ruin of the planters and the emancipation of blacks.
In May 1830, Virginie Trégan, an eighteen-year-old orphan, returned, after a long absence, to Louisiana, where she was born. Having become an accomplished Parisian thanks to her aunt, she returns to the country to receive her father's inheritance. Her godfather, the Marquis Adrien de Damvilliers, a wealthy planter, owner of four hundred slaves, will receive her at Bagatelle. It is the steward of the plantation, Clarence Dandrige, prototype of the Cavalier of the Old South, who will welcome the young girl to New Orleans?
Louisiana is the first volume in a series of six, which paints a romantic and historical fresco relating, from 1830 to 1945, the life of a family of planters, French settlers whose ancestors had settled on the banks of the Mississippi as early as the first half of the 18th century.
Maisons de la Presse Prize, Alexandre-Dumas Prize, in 1977, Louisiana was then the biggest bookstore success since the Second World War. Sold several million copies, this historical novel has had twenty-five translations, sparked a long radio series, and inspired a television series and a film.
Critics unanimously recognized its author, Maurice Denuzière, as one of the masters of the historical novel.
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