Céline Frémaux Garcia (Author) CÉLINE FRÉMAUX GARCIA (1850-1935) spent her life within the ordered, traditional world of nineteenth-century French Louisiana. She belonged to a close-knit web of relations that included the Montilly, Frémaux, and Garcia families.Patrick J. Geary (Editor) PATRICK GEARY is a professor of history at the University of Florida.

This vivid memoir . . . is remarkable less for its account of battles than for its revealing portrait of a family under stress. . . . Her story is a rich account of a nineteenth-century immigrant family's struggle to survive on its own terms, in conflict not only with much of American culture but with itself.