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What is a promise worth when war puts friendship and country on opposite sides?
In Cameron of Lochiel, the world of New France stands on the edge of change. Along the Saint Lawrence River, war and British control reshape the old French colony. Philippe Aubert de Gaspé’s historical romance places private lives against this public upheaval, where loyalty carries a deeply personal cost.
Friendship, family, honor and country pull in different directions. The story invites you to consider what people owe one another when nations divide them. Its slower pace leaves room for customs, landscape and conversation, drawing you toward the texture of a society whose familiar ways face an uncertain future.
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- A world facing change Enter New France as war and uncertainty unsettle the life of the old colony.
- Friendship across divided loyalties Consider the strength of personal bonds when conflict puts allegiance under strain.
- The weight of honor Explore the competing claims of family, country and friendship in a time of upheaval.
- Room to linger Spend time with customs, landscape and talk rather than rushing from event to event.
- History through private lives See how the fall of New France gives questions of loyalty their urgency.
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Cameron of Lochiel
by Philippe Aubert de Gaspé· 1863
In New France, war and the passage to British rule put friendship and loyalty to the test.
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A world on the edge of change
The story belongs to the era when New France, the French colony along the Saint Lawrence River, came under British control. This was a time of war, uncertainty and divided loyalties. Families who had lived in the colony for generations faced a new government and a new language of power.
Aubert de Gaspé knew this history through the memories of his own family. He grew up in Quebec among people who remembered the old order. That closeness to living memory gives French Canadian historical fiction of his period its strong feeling for place and custom.
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Who was Philippe Aubert de Gaspé?
He was a French Canadian author and seigneur from Quebec who died in 1871. He is remembered for writing about the traditions and history of New France, drawing on the memories of his own family and community.
What is a historical romance?
It is a story set in a real period of the past, where invented characters live through true events. Love, friendship and loyalty are tested by the pressures of history, such as war or political change.
What was the fall of New France?
It was the end of French rule in Canada, when the British conquered the colony in the 1750s and 1760s. The French colonists and their descendants then lived under British government.
The author
Philippe Aubert de Gaspé
French Canadian novelist
Philippe Aubert de Gaspé was a Canadian writer and lawyer born in Quebec City in 1786. He lived in Quebec City and Saint-Jean-Port-Joli and died in Quebec City in 1871. He published the novel Les Anciens Canadiens, translated as Cameron of Lochiel, in 1863, and his memoirs in 1866.
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