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    Our Little French Cousin
    Our Little French Cousin
    Our Little French Cousin
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    Our Little French Cousin

    By Blanche McManus

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    Release dateNov 26, 2013
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      Our Little French Cousin - Blanche McManus

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      Title: Our Little French Cousin

      Author: Blanche McManus

      Illustrator: Blanche McManus

      Release Date: September 28, 2013 [EBook #43831]

      Language: English

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      Our Little French Cousin

      THE

      Little Cousin Series

      (TRADE MARK)

      Each volume illustrated with six or more full page plates in

      tint. Cloth, 12mo, with decorative cover

      per volume, $1.00

      LIST OF TITLES

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      Headland, Edward C. Butler,

      and Others

      L. C. PAGE & COMPANY (Inc.)

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      INTRODUCTION

      If a little girl or boy helps another who is in trouble, they are sure to be the best of friends. In the early days, before this country became a great nation, when the Colonies were at war with England, fighting for the independence and freedom which we now celebrate each year on the Fourth of July, a French nobleman by the name of Lafayette came across the sea to help us. We needed his help, and when the brave Colonial soldiers at last won a great victory, and the Colonies became one nation, we were very grateful to Lafayette for the help he had given, and because he was a Frenchman, the people of France and the people of the United States became fast friends.

      This story was written to help us learn more about our wonderful French cousins. Germaine, Our Little French Cousin, happened to live in Normandy, but her every-day life, her parents and her friends were just like those of other French children. True, she travelled more than most children, but if she had not, the story would not tell so much about other parts of her native land.

      It was in the early days of August, 1914, that the French people learned that Germany, her conqueror in the Franco-Prussian war, had again declared war, and was even then hammering at the forts of Belgium so she could march her armies right into their beloved France.

      The news stirred the French people, but while the brave little army of Belgians halted the German troops, an army was gathered quickly under the leadership of Joseph-Jacques-Cesaire Joffre, a man of humble birth whom every one loved. We all know how the Prussian army defeated the Belgians and how the French were forced to retreat until they reached the River Marne, and then how they made a stand which resulted in such a glorious victory for France.

      During these bitter days Germaine, and thousands of other French children, learned how to suffer and yet smile. She learned that her beloved France could produce heroes as great as Bayard, Du Guesclin, Ney, Henry of Navarre, Lafayette and Rochambeau. She never tired of hearing stories of the great General Petain, a quiet, reserved man who filled his troops with a new spirit which urged them on to another great victory at Verdun.

      When, in 1917, the American soldiers went to France to help the French, the English, the Canadians, the Australians, the Belgians and all the other Allies drive the Germans out of France and Belgium, General Pershing, commander of the American Army, visited the tomb of Lafayette. He placed a wreath upon the tomb and made the greatest speech that was ever made in so few words. He said, Lafayette, we're here. So we repaid our debt to France.

      Then General Ferdinand Foch was made Commander-in-chief of all the armies that France and all the other nations had raised to show the Germans that right is greater than might. Then Germaine became even more proud of her native land when she was told of Georges Clemenceau, the Tiger premier, who was so brave and so sure, always, of success, and who played such a great part in making peace again throughout the world.

      As a reward for her many sacrifices during the four years of the most cruel war the world has ever known, France regained her two lost provinces, Alsace and Lorraine. In another volume, Our Little Alsatian Cousin, is told the story of the home life, the work and the play of the little folks who live in these provinces which were long a part of Germany, not because the people wanted it, but because Germany had won the Franco-Prussian war.

      Preface

      Our Little French Cousin is an attempt to tell, in plain, simple language, something of the daily life of a little French girl, living in a Norman village, in one of the most progressive and opulent sections of France.

      The old divisions, or ancient provinces, of France each had its special characteristics and manners and customs, which to this day have endured to a remarkable extent.

      To American children, no less than to our English cousins, the memories of the great names of history which have come down to us from ancient Norman times are very numerous.

      Besides the great Norman William who conquered England, and Richard the Lion-hearted, there are the lesser lights, such as Champlain, La Salle, and Jean Denys,—the discoverer of

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