Calvin jean

1891 · 12859 — Springfield MA: French Protestant College. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1891. First Edition. Hardcover. Xxiii 213 v pp. Small octavo. Original textured brown hardcovers with dull faded gilt title to the front cover spine is sunned and showing a mark from a library spine label. Interior very pretty flowered end papers with a withdrawn stamp first blank with a gift inscription from the author dated 25 Dec 1895 Montreal. Some occasional library stamps otherwise clean and unmarked. A scarce little title. Amaron 1852-1917 was a French-Canadian Presbyterian minister who "accepted a call to the French Protestant Church in Lowell Mass. to continue the work of evangelizing French Canadians. During the second half of the 19th century hundreds of thousands of French Canadians migrated south to work in the factories of New England: by 1900 they would form about 10 per cent of that region’s population. Recognizing the need for educational institutions to support his evangelization Amaron founded the French Protestant College at Lowell in 1885." Dict. Of Canadian Biography. Amaron felt that the flood of Catholic French immigrants to New England was detrimental to the existing culture and that the immigrants needed to be converted to Protestantism or turned back. A scarce little book with the author's signature. ; Ex-Library; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 213 pages; Signed by Author . French Protestant College hardcover