Michael Rogers Pocock (1 results)
Language: English
Published by Michael Rogers Pocock
- Hardcover
Seller: Optimon Books, Gravesend, KENT, United KingdomOptimon Books
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Fair. 'Out of the Shadows of the Past' is the chronicle of a house in Trinidad occupied by two families of the ancien regime, one fleeing from British rule in Grenada and the other from the Terror during the Revolution. It outlines the life of the great West Indian, Philippe Rose Roume de Saint-Laurent, and… his considerable achievements, mainly in Grenada, Trinidad, Tobago and St-Domingue, whose mother, the 'Marquise' de Charras, was the first proprietor of the Champs Elysees estate from 1779. It traces the histories of her family, the de Gannes, from the sovereign Dukes of Brittany and that of the Valletons de Boissiere, who owned the estate from 1820 to 1944, from their beginnings in Bergerac, t.
