Gentlemen and Jesuits

Gentlemen and Jesuits: Glory and Adventure in the Early Days of Acadia - by Elizabeth Jones

The founding and survival of the Port Royal Habitation are recreated in this evocative account of the lives of its people; the impecunious nobleman Jean de Biencourt, sieur de Poutrincourt, who held Port Royal as his fief; the Jesuit missionaries, Father Pierre Biard and Enemond Masse, sent out by the French crown and endowed with court funds; the literary lawyer Marc Lescarbot, who produced the first theatrical production in North America and the magnificent Membertou, sagamo of the local Mi’kmaq.

About the Author

Elizabeth Jones is a teacher, writer, and translator living in Nova Scotia.

Author: Elizabeth Jones
Publisher:  Nimbus Publishing Limited
Copyright ©  2002
ISBN: 9781551093673
Paperback:  294 pages
Dimensions:  6" x 9"