Silent Presence: The French in New England

Author Jeanne Douillard will take listeners to France at an important time of immigration during the 17th century, when groups of pre-French Revolution people from the same country inhabited two different areas of La Nouvelle France (New France), Canada and the Acadia region. Although they grew up under the same political conditions in the land of their birth and left France around the same time, their lives developed in two vastly different directions once they came to the Americas. Book-signing to follow.