Crèvecoeur

American  

[krev-kœr] / krɛvˈkœr /

noun

1. Michel Guillaume Jean de J. Hector St. John, 1735–1813, French writer, statesman, and agriculturalist, in the U.S. after 1754.

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Example Sentences

In 1782, the French cosmopolitan J. Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur authored the well-read "Letters of an American Farmer" and posed the question: "What Then is the American, This New Man?"

From Salon • Apr. 8, 2011

In the 18th century, the American writer Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur, himself an immigrant from France, catalogued the continent’s bewildering mix of “English, Scotch, Irish, French, Dutch, Germans and Swedes.”

From New York Times • Mar. 20, 2010

John de Crèvecoeur, "Letters from an American Farmer, 1782," pp.

From The Journal of Negro History, Volume 1, January 1916 by Various

Hopeless but still true to his trust, La Salle constructed near Peoria a fort which he named Crèvecoeur, in token of his despondency and disappointment.

From Stories by American Authors, Volume 6 by Various

Within a few months he was again at Fort Frontenac and ready to rejoin Tonty at Crèvecoeur.

From Crusaders of New France A Chronicle of the Fleur-de-Lis in the Wilderness Chronicles of America, Volume 4 by Munro, William Bennett