Eugène Sue

A Romance of the West Indies (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Excerpt: Toward the latter part of May, 1690, the three-masted schooner the Unicorn sailed from Rochelle for the island of Martinique. A Captain Daniel commanded this vessel, which was armed with a dozen pieces of medium-sized ordnance, a defensive precaution necessary at that period. France was at that time at war with England, and the Spanish pirates would often cross to the windward of the Antilles, in spite of the frequent pursuit of filibusters. Among the passengers of the Unicorn, few in number, was the Reverend Father Griffen, of the Order of the Preaching Brothers. He was returning to Martinique to resume his parish duties at Macouba, where he had occupied the curacy for some years to the satisfaction of the inhabitants and the slaves of that locality. The exceptional life of the colonies, then almost continually in a state of open hostility against the English, the Spanish, and the natives of the Antilles, placed the priests of the latter in a peculiar position. They were called upon not only to preach, to hear confessions, to administer the sacraments to their flocks, but also to aid in defending themselves during the frequent inroads of their enemies of all nations and all colors.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: OTB eBook publishing
• Seitenzahl: 267
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. August 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9783962724245
• Artikelnr.: 53700806

Autorenporträt

Marie-Joseph "Eugène" Sue (26 January 1804 ¿ 3 August 1857) was a French novelist. He was one of several authors who popularised the genre of the serial novel in France with his very popular and widely imitated "The Mysteries of Paris", which was published in a newspaper from 1842 to 1843. (Excerpt from Wikipedia)