| | 1 | Author: | Munroe, Kirk, 1850-1930. | Add | | | Title: | The flamingo feather  | | | | Published: | 2001 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | ON a dreary winter's day, early in the year 1564, young Réné
de Veaux, who had just passed his sixteenth birthday, left the dear old chateau
where he had spent his happy and careless boyhood, and started for Paris.
Less than a month before both his noble father and his gentle mother had
been taken from him by a terrible fever that had swept over the country,
and Réné their only child, was left without a relative in the
world except his uncle the Chevalier Réné de Laudonniere, after
whom he was named. In those days of tedious travel it seemed a weary time
to the lonely lad before the messenger who had gone to Paris with a letter
telling his uncle of his sad position could return. When at length he came
again, bringing a kind message that bade him come immediately to Paris and
be a son to his equally lonely uncle, Réné lost no time in
obeying. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
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