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Barkskins: One on One with Annie Proulx
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In the late seventeenth century two penniless young Frenchmen, René Sel and Charles Duquet, arrive in New France. Bound to a feudal lord, a “seigneur,” for ... › events › fall › barkski...
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The book begins with the arrival in New France (Canada) in of two Frenchmen, René Sel and Charles Duquet, as indentured “barkskins”, or woodcutters, ... › culture › what-to-read
Annie Proulx's epic 'Barkskins' has urgent message
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They find an impossible natural splendor there, “evergreens taller than cathedrals, cloud-piercing spruce.” One of the men, Rene Sel, works the land honestly, marrying a Mi'kmaw woman. The other, Charles Duquet, disappears, reemerging after some years as an unscrupulous furrier. What follows is the ...
‘Barkskins,’ by Annie Proulx - SFGate
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René Sel and Charles Duquet arrive in New France in 1693, censitaires to a ruthless feudal lord named Trépagny. They clear forests in order to gain their freedom. Or, rather, Sel does. Duquet flees his captivity and becomes a fur trapper and later a ruthless timber baron whose empire will one day stretch ...
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