Allen French (28 November 1870 –6 October 1946) was a historian and children's book author who did major research on the battles of
Lexington and
Concord
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Meaning "agreement"
* Pact or treaty, frequently between nations (indicating a condition of harmony)
* Harmony, in music
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, during the
American Revolutionary War
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. He was a founding member and president of the
Thoreau Society
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.
Biography
Born in
Boston
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, French attended
Harvard University
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for his undergraduate education. Several of his children's books were illustrated by painter
Andrew Wyeth
Andrew Newell Wyeth ( ; July 12, 1917 – January 16, 2009) was an American visual artist, primarily a realist painter, working predominantly in a regionalist style. He was one of the best-known U.S. artists of the middle 20th century.
In his ...
.
Works
Fiction
*''Sir Marrok: A Tale of the Days of King Arthur'' (1902); New York: Century.
*''At Plattsburg'' (1917), Charles Scribner's Sons, New York.
*''The Story of Rolf and the Viking Bow'' (1924), Boston: Little, Brown, and Company.
*''The Red Keep: A story of Burgundy in Year 1165'' (19??)
997
Year 997 (Roman numerals, CMXCVII) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
Events
By place
Japan
* 1 February: Empress Teishi gives birth to Princess Shushi - she is the first ...
Warsaw, N.D.:Ignatius Press.
*''The Lost Baron''
*''Heroes of Iceland''
*''The Story of Grettir the Strong''
*''The Colonials''
*''The Barrier''
*''Pelham and His Friend Tim''
Non-fiction
*''The Siege of Boston'' (1911), New York: The Macmillan Company.
*''First Year of the American Revolution''
*''General Gage's Informers''
*''Historic Concord and the Lexington Fight''
*''Charles I and the Puritan Upheaval: A Study of the Causes of the Great Migration'' (1955), Houghton Mifflin.
Allen French, Charles I and the Puritan Upheaval: A Study of the Causes of the Great Migration, Google Books
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References
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1870 births
1946 deaths
American children's writers
American military historians
Harvard University alumni
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