Alice of Old Vincennes Maurice Thompson 9781293306789 Books
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Alice of Old Vincennes Maurice Thompson 9781293306789 Books Reviews
Absolutely delightful. Writing from the old "innocent"days and reflective of period sensitivities before PC sensitivities ignored this genre of writing.
Alice Roussillon is a surprising heroine considering this book was published way back in 1900. Living in the then French village of Vincennes, Alice is all for turning over the city to the Americans. She even helps sew an American flag and brashly climbs to the top of what serves as town hall to plant it.
But then those pesky villains, the British army, come and take the city away from the fledgling American presence. Alice just keeps getting in deeper and deeper trouble. First she hides the flag and refuses to surrender it to the British commander. Then she shoots (but doesn't kill) a British officer (who strangely enough goes on to fall in love with her.) She helps her French foster father escape, wounding another British soldier with her sword, which she handles expertly by the way. Enough is enough and the commander finally imprisons Alice and threatens to execute her.
Alice's American boyfriend flees to try and find help. He's chased by a band of Indians who want his scalp. He's captured, abused, and forced to go through the gauntlet, but he's able to get away and hook up with the legendary George Rogers Clark and his small band of men.
Meanwhile, Alice is told that her boyfriend has been scalped. She attempts to flee her captives and in the course of events she's shot! But don't worry. Through an extreme set of circumstances she survives and is reunited with her boyfriend who still has all his hair.
If there's one main nitpick it concerns the character of Father Beret, a Jesuit priest. One moment he's a kind old man trying to guide Alice to Catholicism. But when the situation calls for it, he's a strong defender with a good right punch who can also wield a sword with the best of them. Early in the book he receives a mysterious letter but we the reader never do get to learn what it says. It's obvious Beret has an interesting back story, but author Maurice Thompson never goes into it. A wasted opportunity if you ask me.
Another missed opportunity is Alice's background. She was found as a child living with Indians and was placed in the care of a French family. At the very end of the book we're simply told that she finds out who her family is but we're not told how. How did she end up living with the Indians? What happened to her birth parents? Again, Thompson just drops the subject.
One last thing don't expect any politically correct language when it comes to the Native Americans in this book. Keep in mind the era when this book was written.
I had not heard about tis area in southern Indiana since I am not Hoosier born. My children are all Hoosiers and knew of the history better than I .
I loved the story. Kept my interest.
I always try to read a book that is set in a location where I plan to travel. Historical fiction gives me a sense of the land and how the area started and has grown. It gives me a different perspective when I am there. This book was slow at the start, but soon became interesting.
Old fashioned, interesting story.
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