Title: "The Dressmaker"
Volume 1: "The hands of time"
Volume 2: the revenge of the black widow "
Author: Francine Allard
kind: novel
Publisher: Three Pistoles (Quebec)
Francine ALLARD, writer, poet, artist Quebec
Show Francine Allard is not a simple exercise such as author embraces a variety of fields.
Born in 1949 in Verdun, a city adjacent to Montreal at the time, Francine Allard, enjoys the openness of her parents and when his training is extensive. It's theater, perfects his voice, remarkably told, entered the Conservatory of Music and Dramatic Art, gets a college degree in social sciences, studied philosophy, became a chorister at Radio Canada, manages the teaching degree, take care of children with disabilities.
same time, brimming with activity, she studied watercolor pottery and participates in group exhibitions.
columnist, humorist time, this strong personality, very rooted in his time, takes a position with passion for social issues, like the recent curriculum reform in education.
But it is also and above all a writer of great talent. His novels (youth and adults) do not leave indifferent. One feels behind the overflow of energy, a sense of the other, openness, sensitivity, listening, in short, a humanist reality.
Poet, "At the end of the wharf ", " Vocalises a sob "Her words catch us, we hustled and we end up" every thing ".
" Do not hear the groans indigestible
our parents frustrated " in Vocalises ... And Vlan!!
Today, Le Centre Francophone de Bourgogne is pleased to present the 2 previously published volumes of his trilogy "The seamstress " books which we hope many readers.
Two books to read and exciting to offer.
- Volume 1 "The hands of time "
The story of this announced trilogy begins in 1910, in Lachine, on the shores of Lake St. Louis, Quebec, St. Joseph Blvd. Adelina
Trudel, mother of Emilia, gives birth to a boy, Victor, but dies in childbirth. Donald Crevier, the midwife, who loves Josephat, father, will be quietly moving in with him but will never become his wife, to his chagrin. It will wound all her life. However, it will be time to give a passion for sewing to Emilia that her job will eventually assert itself as a creative and prominent.
This novel reads easily draw the fate of two women: Emilia and Donald.
During the crisis, affluent families in wealthy families, Emilia provide toilets for weddings and thereby help his family survive. Disappointed by fickle suitors, in constant search for affection due to lack of maternal love, she finds the love in Louis Turgeon unfortunate bus driver, Victor, the brother of Emilia will collide one night of euphoria.
Donald, pregnant, leave it, discreetly Lachine, after the death of his mother and his disenchantment and, wise woman and concrete, will embark on herbalism and cider making, even if the apples are at the beginning " borrowed "With the complicity of the monk Michael, her lover, in neighboring convent. Driven by his "friends" Indians, it will accept the distillation of cider with calvados risks of prohibition.
story well done, accurate descriptions and pictorial, Francine Allard, writer of talent, a knack for writing and art falls and twists. A novel that takes us into the Québec that we hold dear. A delight.
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- Volume 2 " The revenge of the black widow "
This second volume continues the parallel lives of two heroines : Donald Crevier and Emilia Trudel. Donald
enhance their knowledge in botany and become a caregiver by plants in great demand. His herbalism, famous throughout the region, will experience his son Joseph and the beautiful family dede it. But this life of success will not come without drama. Her lover, a former monk passion for botany, will return to the convent for the love of plants, the glory and the money expected. Avenging Donald will be ruthless.
Courageous, it will cover only the distillation of alcohol prohibited and will be interned. Even in prison, his aura will attract people lost their marks and collect with her a former prostitute.
This woman of character to avoid conscription and his son will not hesitate to go to murder to protect against the authorities. An exceptional woman.
Emilia, with the same sense of independence, a remarkable era macho become a creative fashion that wealthy women will climb out, not without being hit, too, by painful events: the death of his brother- over Holland, criminal and fascist drift of Louis, her husband. Fortunately, she found peace in the arms of a good man, attentive to buy a car in violation of social etiquette, and this vehicle may be easier there, in the third volume, titled "The persistence of rosemary " encounter with the woman who was a short time his "mother", the herbalist Donald!
Second Volume we happily devoured.
-------------------------------------- You can listen Francine Allard about his work on
http://www.youtube.com/user/MEMOIREVIVEfallard
Volume 1: "The hands of time"
Volume 2: the revenge of the black widow "
Author: Francine Allard
kind: novel
Publisher: Three Pistoles (Quebec)
Francine ALLARD, writer, poet, artist Quebec
Show Francine Allard is not a simple exercise such as author embraces a variety of fields.
Born in 1949 in Verdun, a city adjacent to Montreal at the time, Francine Allard, enjoys the openness of her parents and when his training is extensive. It's theater, perfects his voice, remarkably told, entered the Conservatory of Music and Dramatic Art, gets a college degree in social sciences, studied philosophy, became a chorister at Radio Canada, manages the teaching degree, take care of children with disabilities.
same time, brimming with activity, she studied watercolor pottery and participates in group exhibitions.
columnist, humorist time, this strong personality, very rooted in his time, takes a position with passion for social issues, like the recent curriculum reform in education.
But it is also and above all a writer of great talent. His novels (youth and adults) do not leave indifferent. One feels behind the overflow of energy, a sense of the other, openness, sensitivity, listening, in short, a humanist reality.
Poet, "At the end of the wharf ", " Vocalises a sob "Her words catch us, we hustled and we end up" every thing ".
" Do not hear the groans indigestible
our parents frustrated " in Vocalises ... And Vlan!!
Today, Le Centre Francophone de Bourgogne is pleased to present the 2 previously published volumes of his trilogy "The seamstress " books which we hope many readers.
Two books to read and exciting to offer.
- Volume 1 "The hands of time "
The story of this announced trilogy begins in 1910, in Lachine, on the shores of Lake St. Louis, Quebec, St. Joseph Blvd. Adelina
Trudel, mother of Emilia, gives birth to a boy, Victor, but dies in childbirth. Donald Crevier, the midwife, who loves Josephat, father, will be quietly moving in with him but will never become his wife, to his chagrin. It will wound all her life. However, it will be time to give a passion for sewing to Emilia that her job will eventually assert itself as a creative and prominent.
This novel reads easily draw the fate of two women: Emilia and Donald.
During the crisis, affluent families in wealthy families, Emilia provide toilets for weddings and thereby help his family survive. Disappointed by fickle suitors, in constant search for affection due to lack of maternal love, she finds the love in Louis Turgeon unfortunate bus driver, Victor, the brother of Emilia will collide one night of euphoria.
Donald, pregnant, leave it, discreetly Lachine, after the death of his mother and his disenchantment and, wise woman and concrete, will embark on herbalism and cider making, even if the apples are at the beginning " borrowed "With the complicity of the monk Michael, her lover, in neighboring convent. Driven by his "friends" Indians, it will accept the distillation of cider with calvados risks of prohibition.
story well done, accurate descriptions and pictorial, Francine Allard, writer of talent, a knack for writing and art falls and twists. A novel that takes us into the Québec that we hold dear. A delight.
------------------------------------------------- ------------
- Volume 2 " The revenge of the black widow "
This second volume continues the parallel lives of two heroines : Donald Crevier and Emilia Trudel. Donald
enhance their knowledge in botany and become a caregiver by plants in great demand. His herbalism, famous throughout the region, will experience his son Joseph and the beautiful family dede it. But this life of success will not come without drama. Her lover, a former monk passion for botany, will return to the convent for the love of plants, the glory and the money expected. Avenging Donald will be ruthless.
Courageous, it will cover only the distillation of alcohol prohibited and will be interned. Even in prison, his aura will attract people lost their marks and collect with her a former prostitute.
This woman of character to avoid conscription and his son will not hesitate to go to murder to protect against the authorities. An exceptional woman.
Emilia, with the same sense of independence, a remarkable era macho become a creative fashion that wealthy women will climb out, not without being hit, too, by painful events: the death of his brother- over Holland, criminal and fascist drift of Louis, her husband. Fortunately, she found peace in the arms of a good man, attentive to buy a car in violation of social etiquette, and this vehicle may be easier there, in the third volume, titled "The persistence of rosemary " encounter with the woman who was a short time his "mother", the herbalist Donald!
Second Volume we happily devoured.
-------------------------------------- You can listen Francine Allard about his work on
http://www.youtube.com/user/MEMOIREVIVEfallard
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