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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Crèvecoeur

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

The former were soon put to rout by the superiority of the latter, whose banner Countess Isabelle recognised as that of the Count of Crèvecoeur, a noble Burgundian.

From The World's Greatest Books — Volume 08 — Fiction by Arthur Mee

While Hennepin was exploring the upper valley of the Mississippi, La Salle's interests were getting from bad to worse at Crèvecoeur.

From The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 12 by John Rudd

On his return he found that Fort Crèvecoeur was in ruins, and that Tonty and the few men who had been faithful were gone, he knew not where.

From A School History of the United States by John Bach McMaster

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