Lost and Found Again, or, Pierre Cholet

Lost and Found Again, or, Pierre CholetA new translation of lEnfant perdu et retrouv ou Pierre Cholet by J. B. Proulx with new maps, notes, and illus. is for all readers of adventure stories and history. It is a true story of one mans perseverance despite his many hardships to return home. In 1845, five year old Pierre Cholet is kidnapped along with his brother and cousin from rural Quebec. The kidnapper eludes a manhunt of 400 parishioners and sells the boys to a French sea captain

A new translation of ÒlÕEnfant perdu et retrouvŽ ou Pierre CholetÓ by J.-B. Proulx with new maps, notes, and illus. is for all readers of adventure stories and history. It is a true story of one manÕs perseverance despite his many hardships to return home. In 1845, five-year-old Pierre Cholet is kidnapped along with his brother and cousin from rural Quebec. The kidnapper eludes a manhunt of 400 parishioners and sells the boys to a French sea captain sailing to St. Malo, France. Thirty-six years later, Cholet alone returns home. Cholet tells his story to the author J.-B. Proulx, relating the fate of the other two boys, his hard life as a sailor on the high seas, his shipwrecks, his escape and near death in LabradorÕs wilderness, and his decade of searching throughout eastern Canada for his parents. Proulx combines his literary skills with CholetÕs talents as a raconteur to produce both an enthralling tale and a brief history of French Canadian life.