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by Céline Frémaux Garcia (Author), Patrick J. Geary (Editor), Bertram Wyatt-Brown (Foreword by)
In the middle years of her life, Céline Frémaux Garcia recollected in this memoir her Louisiana childhood and growth into maturity--a tumultuous personal period that was transformed by violence as it was dominated by fear. The result is a detailed and sensitive portrait of a child's world of awe and wonder, color, and strife, in which the Civil War and its aftermath form the backdrop for conflict and rivalry within her French middle-class immigrant family.
Author Biography
Céline Frémaux Garcia (Author)
CÉLINE FRÉMAUX GARCIA (1850-1935) spent her life within the ordered, traditional world of nineteenth-century French Louisiana. She belonged to a close-knit web of relations that included the Montilly, Frémaux, and Garcia families.
PATRICK GEARY is a professor of history at the University of Florida.
