A Passion for Survival

Description:

The incredible lives of Marie Anne and Louis Payzant have formed the stuff of legends and sparked the literary imagination of a number of writers, Margaret Atwood among them. Fleeing religious persecution in eighteenth-century France, Huguenots Marie Anne and Louis abandoned the haven of Jersey, one of the Channel Islands, for a new life in Nova Scotia, only to be engulfed by the New World's own troubles: colonial hardship, French-English warfare, and threats from local natives. A Passion for Survival is the true account of Louis's tragic death and Marie Anne's remarkable fortitude -- a story so extraordinary, it reads like fiction.

subjects: Anglo-French War, 1755-1763,  Biography,  Canada Seven Years' War, 1755-1763,  History,  Huguenots,  Prisoners and prisons,  Prisoners of war,  Nova scotia, history,  Nova scotia, biography,  Seven years' war, 1756-1763,  Canada, history, to 1763 (new france),  Biographies,  Histoire,  Prisonniers et prisons

People: Louis Payzant (ca. 1695-1756),  Marie Anne Payzant (ca. 1711-1796)

Places: Canada,  Nova Scotia,  Québec,  Québec (Province)

Times: 1713-1763,  1713-1763 (New France),  1713-1775,  18th century,  Seven Years' War, 1755-1763