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Title: La Dame De Sainte Hermine
Author: King, Grace
Edition: First Edition
Location Published: Macmillan & Co.: 1924
Binding: Hard Cover
Book Condition: Good
Jacket Condition: No Jacket
Categories: Fiction, American History, Women's Studies
Seller ID: 131667
Book shows light wear at edges, bumped and lightly worn corners, covers in dark green cloth with gilt embossed lettering and border on front and spine. Text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind save stamp at free front endpaper "Clement's news & cigar store." Back cover has little marks, straight, solid binding.
Noted Louisiana author and historian Grace King Kings final novel was a historical romance titled La shops Dame de Sainte Hermine (1924), set in eighteenth-century Louisiana. Combining her love and command of historical detail with her novelistic skill, this work embellished the well-known historical phenomenon of the "casket girls," young French women given money and passage to Louisiana by the king in hopes of populating the New World settlement.
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Product code: La Dame De Sainte Hermine by Grace shops King