Madeleine: Last French Casquette Bride in New Orleans by Wanda Maureen Miller

Thanks to Lennie DeCerce of Atmosphere Press, I am giving away one print copy of ‘Madeleine by Wanda Maureen Miller.

Description Madeleine by Wanda Maureen Miller

In 1728, beautiful, resourceful Madeleine Boucher is one of the last in a group of poor young girls given modest dowries in trunks, or casquettes, by the French government-then shipped off to America, where they are intended as wives for the French settlers in the Louisiana Territory. Despite a series of romantic travails, Madeleine remains fiercely dedicated to finding true passion and securing the promise of her new adopted land, free from the prejudices of the past.

The story of Madeleine and the other casquette girls is the story of New Orleans itself. Like the city, they struggled through Indians, hurricanes, fires, and floods. Like the city, they absorbed the shocks and assimilated the dominance of other cultures, while remaining steadfastly French.

Praise Madeleine by Wanda Maureen Miller

“Madeleine’s brutal but enlightening journey vividly brings back to life a forgotten era, a history, a people-and the nation they came to call their own.”-Terri Cheney, New York Times bestselling author of Manic and Modern Madness

About Wanda Maureen Miller

Wanda Maureen Miller (or Mo) grew up on an Arkansas farm in the 1940s and 1950s, got educated, moved to California, and taught college English. She has published six books—a historical romance, The French (1983); three textbooks, Reading Faster and Understanding More, Books 1, 2, and 3 (5 editions, 1976 to 2001); her slightly fictionalized memoir, Last Trip Home (2018); and now Book 1: Madeleine, Last French Casquette Bride in New Orleans.

Retired, she plays pickle-ball and is working on Book 2: Solange, Daughter of Last French Casquette Bride in New Orleans.

Website: https://wandamaureenmiller.wordpress.com/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/wmomill

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