| #4361544 in Books | 2008-09-01 | 2008-09-01 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 9.00 x.73 x6.00l,1.06 | File type: PDF | 328 pages||1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.| Interesting Book|By Kelly Guidry|I was required to read Celine for a history class. It was a good and easy read, very interesting. I would recommend it to anyone interested in history, especially Civil War, Louisiana, or women's history.|2 of 2 people found the following review helpful.| Great book!|By Stephanie|This book is wr|||This vivid memoir . . . is remarkable less for its account of battles than for its revealing portrait of a family under stress. . . . Her story is a rich account of a nineteenth-century immigrant family's struggle to survive on its own terms, in conflict not
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....
You can specify the type of files you want, for your device.Céline: Remembering Louisiana, 1850-1871 (Brown Thrasher Books Ser.) | Céline Frémaux Garcia. I have read it a couple of times and even shared with my family members. Really good. Couldnt put it down.
