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EVANGELINCÉ
Ye who believe in affection that hopes, and
endures, and iy patient
ye wko beliae in the beauty and strength
of a woman's deootion,~
List to the mournfail
tradilion still sungse
& Fuliet, or the real
As well known as Shakespeare's story of Romeo
life drama of Petrarch & Laura, is Longfellow's nomance of Evangeline
& Gabriel. More poignant than the paem is the charming local legend
in the Louisiana Acadian country that Evangeline actially existed as
Enuneline La Biche, that~ Gabriel 's name was Louis Arceneaux , & thar
after her weari some but unfaltering journey to seek her exiled lover, whens
the loyal girl neached "Poste des Attakapas", now SirMartinville, and spied
her long lost Louis she was nepulsed by him. He explained that he had.
tired of waiting for her & was betrothed to another.
Unable to bear the shock, Emmeline lost her reason. She was
SWeet & gentle the short time she lived afterwands that people called herEv-
angeline, which meant "God's Little Angel". When she died she was buried
near the bank, of the Ceche, not far from the great oak where she met :
Louis, and which still bears her name.
Louis, our Gabriel, it is told, settled with his new love in this fine
old house and prospered.
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PHOTO POST CARO
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