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Michel-Guillaume-Saint-Jean de Crèvecoeur was a French American author whose work provided a broad picture of life in the New World. After study in Jesuit schools and four years as an officer and mapmaker in Canada, Crèvecoeur chose in 1759 to remain in the New World.
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The young American was Michel-Guillaume Jean de Crevecoeur, commonly known as Hector St John de Crevecoeur. When he himself wrote to Franklin later that August, he signed himself ‘St John’ - which made the great man wonder whether this was the fellow-countryman whom Madame d’Houdetot had commended to him.
Here the Frenchman Michel-Guillaume Jean de Crèvecoeur bought farmland in 1764 after having served in the French and Indian War.
Michel Guillaume Jean de Crèvecoeur 1735-1813. (Wrote under the name J. Hector St. John) French-born American fiction writer and novelist. Michel Guillaume Jean de Crèvecoeur was a...
French-American author and naturalist Michel-Guillaume-Saint-Jean de Crèvecoeur provided a broad picture of life in the New World. His charming style, keen eye, and simple philosophy have been universally admired.
Michel-Guillaume Jean de Crèvecoeur (as James Hector St. John) written ca. 1770-1778, published 1782, selections. The landscape above depicts the New York Catskill Mountains in 1761 the embodiment of American expanse and opportunity, far from the class-locked societies of Europe.
