Matins And Lauds - A Story Of Colette Perron

Yves Patrick Beaulieu

Summary

----- CHEVEUX AU VENT DANS L'AUBE a biography of Colette Perron, my late mother. Born from her many little notes written over the years, the book tells about her childhood and her life in Nédélec, in Témiscamingue. From the beginning of colonization, in 1900, until her marriage in 1952, she said what she saw, in all simplicity 


Note: I have provided, as a watercolorist, the work shown on the cover page and my brother Yves Patrick meanwhile, gathered mother's notes and wrote her story, now titled Matins & Lauds. May you enjoy this reading! Christine Beaulieu Germain

Available since: 01/28/2022.

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