A Passion for Survival: The True Story of Marie Anne And Louis Payzant in 18th Century Nova Scotia

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Marie Anne and Louis Payzant had high hopes for a new future as they left a comfortable life at the island of Jersey and sailed with their children around the Atlantic to a new settlement at the shores of Nova Scotia in June 1753. Both had already fled religious persecution in their native France. On this fascinating and true account of Louis & Marie Anne Payzant, creator Linda Layton has pieced together the couple’s heartbreaking sense of loss, their struggles and deaths set against the backdrop of one of the crucial chaotic times within the history of Europe and North The united states.

The creator is the great-great-great-great granddaughter of Marie Anne and Louis. She has spent years researching and traveling in a quest for facts about her ancestors The book will appeal to enthusiasts of early Canadian history of Nova Scotia, Quebec and Acadia in addition to readers who love an ideal adventure story as it specializes in one woman caught within the religious struggle between Roman Catholicism and Protestantism, and the colonial struggle between our two founding cultures.

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