Crèvecoeur
Americannoun
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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
And yet the Crèvecoeur cameo had puzzled wiser heads than Mrs. Dalliba's, adept though she was.
From Stories by American Authors, Volume 6 by Various
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 McMaster, John Bach
While Father Xavier was compiling this remarkable piece of authorship, the Iroquois descended in warlike array upon the somewhat friendly disposed Illinois Indians, in whose midst Fort Crèvecoeur had been built.
From Stories by American Authors, Volume 6 by Various
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