Evangeline (Cyclopedia of Literary Characters)
At a glance:
- Author: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
- First Published: 1847
- Type of Work: Poetry
- Type of Plot: Pastoral
- Time of Work: Mid-eighteenth century
- Setting: French Canada and the United States
- Genres: Poetry
- Subjects: United States or Americans
- Locales: United States
Characters Discussed
Benedict Bellefontaine (behl-fon- TEHN), a farmer of Grand-Pré, in French Canada, who dies after the British fleet captures and burns his village.
Evangeline Bellefontaine (ay-vahn-zheh- LEEN), his lovely daughter, betrothed to Gabriel Lajeunesse. After he is exiled by the British, she roams the United States from Louisiana to the Ozark Mountains and Michigan in search of him. Finally, she becomes a Sister of Mercy in Philadelphia, and there she finds him dying. Soon afterward, she dies and is buried beside him.
Gabriel Lajeunesse (ga-bree-...
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