Captain Robert Moray, a Scot serving the British, is a hostage in French Quebec during the last years of New France. He has made enemies in high places, above all the brilliant and cynical Doltaire, and he loves a French girl, Alixe Duvarney, whose family stands close to the corrupt circle of the Intendant Bigot. The story runs toward the fall of the city in 1759.
Parker’s best-known novel, first serialised in The Atlantic Monthly in 1895, and a vivid picture of the Conquest of Canada. Download the free EPUB.