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Francine Legaré. Samuel de Champlain

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Francine Legaré

Francine Legaré lives in Quebec City, where she works as a freelance researcher and writer. She studied journalism at Laval University and at Louvain-la-Neuve, in Belgium. When she returned, she wrote several research books for the Quebec government on health, justice, youth resources, the condition of women, the environment, and Quebec history. She has also written numerous articles in various magazines including the Gazette des femmes, to which she has contributed since 1996.

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Finally landing on solid ground, Hélène froze. Behind her still hovered the nightmare possibility of their ship sinking, which had nearly happened more than once. She had barely survived the voyage through the help of prayer. Before her, she did not see the Quebec her husband had described as a velvet green jetty in the gentle summer. Instead, she witnessed a handful of scrawny men, a cloud of flies and a dilapidated structure meant to serve as their home, and nothing else.

Champlain read dismay in the eyes of Hélène.

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