Bonsoir : A Legend of Biloxi single work   short story   adventure  
Issue Details: First known date: 1898... 1898 Bonsoir : A Legend of Biloxi
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Set on the Gulf of Mexico in the early 1800s. Legendary tale of Loup Bonsoir who sails into Biloxi and takes over the town with his rough piratical ways. His daughter the beautiful Aricie has been separated from her lover and pines for him until the village priest and townspeople pray for and assist her to rejoin him. Concludes with a chase between the lover's sloop and Bonsoir's beaten and decayed vessel Le Pelican. (PB)

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