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Revealing Difference
In fact, her originality extends far beyond this scale. Charriere's novels not only work with literary conventions, they work on these conventions. For example, the figure of the heroine, plotted according to a standard plot line, serves at a more complex level to undermine the image of woman embedded in the heroine. Most telling are heroines plotted in the context of the French Revolution; they reflect the repressive image of woman that would emerge from the combination of republican ideology with the growing emphasis on maternalism. Surprisingly modern in this regard, these novels confirm recent interpretations of the gendering of the social sphere after the Revolution.
A Record of the Descendants of Nicholas Provost
Nicholas Provost (ca. 1743-1816), son of French immigrant Nicholas Provost and Marie Françoise Quebedeaux of Illinois, was born in Illinois and moved to Martinville, Louisiana in 1780, where he married Marie Jeanne Prevost in 1785. Descendants lived in Louisiana, Texas, California and elsewhere.
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The Medieval Chronicle 13
Alongside annals, chronicles were the main genre of historical writing in the Middle Ages. Their significance as sources for the study of medieval history and culture is today widely recognised not only by historians, but also by students of medieval literature and linguistics and by art historians. The series The Medieval Chronicle aims to provide a representative survey of the on-going research in the field of chronicle studies, illustrated by examples from specific chronicles from a wide variety of countries, periods and cultural backgrounds.
