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Grandissimes, The: A Story of Creole Life

The Oxford Companion to American Literature | 1995 | 700+ words | Copyright

Grandissimes, The: A Story of Creole Life, novel by G.W. Cable, published in 1880.

During the early 19th century there is a feud between the Grandissimes and the De Grapions, aristocratic Louisiana families. One of its results has been the death in a duel of Nancanou De Grapion, and his beautiful widow, Aurora, is the last of the family to survive. She lives with her daughter Clotilde in impoverished seclusion in New Orleans. Joseph Frowenfeld, a young apothecary, through his friend old Dr. Keene and his whimsical Creole clerk Raoul Innerarity, becomes acquainted with both Honoré Grandissime, banker and head of his family, and the De Grapions, who nurse him during an illness. The apothecary falls in love with Clotilde, and Honoré loves Aurora, but various intrigues and their social positions keep them apart. Finally, haughty old Agricola Fusilier, who killed Nancanou, antagonizes Honoré's quadroon half‐brother, who stabs him. At the old man's deathbed, Honoré's sister effects a reconciliation of the families, and the two couples are enabled to marry.

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