Women in French

This 1845 novel by Camille Lebrun, the penname of Pauline Guyot (1805-1886), meant for a young adult readership of her era is one of the few perspectives that we have by a mid-nineteenth-century French woman writer on the matters of slavery, abolition, race relations, and white supremacy in France’s former Louisiana colony. 

For more information see link attached below:

https://www.upress.state.ms.us/Books/F/Friendship-and-Devotion-or-Three-Months-in-Louisiana