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Our people and our history : fifty Creole portraits / Rodolphe Lucien Desdunes ; translated and edited by Dorothea Olga McCants.
Van Pelt Library F380.C87 D48 2001
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Desdunes, Rodolphe Lucien.
- Standardized Title:
- Nos hommes et notre histoire. English
- Language:
- English
- French
- Subjects (All):
- Creoles--Louisiana--Biography.
- Creoles.
- Louisiana--Biography.
- Louisiana.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- xxviii, 153 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
- Edition:
- Louisiana paperback edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, 2001.
- Summary:
- In Our People and Our History, originally published in French in 1911 and translated into English in 1973, Rodolphe Lucien Desdunes records the lives of fifty prominent Creoles who lived in New Orleans at the end of the nineteenth century. Although he received little formal education, Desdunes -- himself a Creole -- was an articulate observer of his times and culture. His portraits of doctors, lawyers, teachers, musicians, artists, and writers of his race are powerful evidence of the extraordinary role that Creoles played in the cultural and political history of Louisiana.
- Contents:
- The Free Creoles of Color and the Campaign of 1814-1815
- Hippolyte Castra
- Les Cenelles
- Mr. Armand Lanusse and His Times
- A Dedication
- The Collaborators of Les Cenelles
- Some Biographical Sketches
- The Collaborators of Les Cenelles (Continuation)
- Biographical Sketches
- Beaumont and the Creole Song
- The Toucoutou Affair
- Poets and Journalists
- The Creole of Color in the Arts and the Liberal Arts Professions
- A Page in Our Political History
- Popular Military Men
- Figures of the Past
- Music and the Creoles of Color
- Rivalry Among Artists
- Prejudice
- Our Philanthropists of the Past
- How the Black Man Knows How to Give
- The Creole Women of Color in the Catholic Churches
- The Generosity of Madame Bernard Couvent
- The Emigration of 1858
- The Politics of the Emperor Faustin I of Haiti
- Two Great Figures: Emile Desdunes and Captain Octave Rey
- The Generation of 1860
- The Hero, Andre Cailloux
- President Johnson and the Question of the Races
- Our Political Battles
- Politics and the Sense of Duty
- Mr. Aristide Mary and the Citizens' Committee
- Our Last Entrenchments
- Defections and Failings.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Kenneth H. and Thelma F. Cisney Memorial Fund.
- ISBN:
- 080712740X
- 9780807127407
- OCLC:
- 48783484
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