Conflagration (Canadian Historical Mysteries, #7) / Canadian Historical Mysteries (ePub)
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On a warm spring day in April 1734, a fire raged through Montreal's merchant quarters. When the flames finally died, 46 buildings - including the Hôtel-Dieu convent and hospital - had been destroyed. Within hours, rumors ran rampant that Marie-Joseph Angélique, an enslaved Black woman fighting for her freedom, had started the fire with her white lover, Claude Thibault. Less than 24 hours later, Angelique was sitting in a prison cell. Her lover was nowhere to be found. More than 20 witnesses appeared before the judge, all claiming Angélique was the arsonist. But no one saw her set the fire.
It didn't matter. In an era when lawyers were banned from practising in New France, Angélique was on her own. She denied starting the fire. Philippe Archambeau, a court clerk assigned specifically to document her case, believed Angelique might just be telling the truth. That belief only got stronger after Angélique was tortured - and finally confessed. Her captors used the brodequins to crush Angélique's leg. Her spirit remained indomitable.
As Angélique was paraded through the streets of Montreal, Incendiare embroidered across the front of her white chemise, Archambeau finally realized what really happened the night Montreal burned to the ground.
- Autor: Donalee Moulton
- 2023, Englisch
- Verlag: BWL Publishing Inc.
- ISBN-10: 0228628466
- ISBN-13: 9780228628460
- Erscheinungsdatum: 29.11.2023
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