Paul Marchand, F.M.C.

Charles Waddell Chesnutt

Original title: Paul Marchand, F.M.C

earliest edition we have, 1998 Princeton University Press, 1999 192 pages

After living for many years in France, the wealthy and sophisticated Paul Marchand, a Free Man of Color, returns to his home in New Orleans. He discovers through a will that he is white and now head of a prosperous and influential family. Since mixed-race marriages are illegal in Louisiana, he must renounce his mulatto wife and bastardize his children. Charles W. Chesnutt wrote this novel in the 1920s at the beginni...

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Paul Marchand F.m.c. paperback · 2005 · University Press of Mississippi · 188 pages · 9781578067985
Paul Marchand, F.M.C. edition · 1999 · Princeton University Press · 192 pages
Paul Marchand, F.M.C. edition · 1998 · University Press of Mississippi · 144 pages

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