02b - Helen Creighton and the Mystery of “Louisbourg’s Lament”

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The Lost World of Cape Breton Island

J.M., J.R. Bourgeois

16 episodes

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The Lost World of Cape Breton Island Podcast is a Canadian history project that uncovers the forgotten stories of 18th-and 19th-century Cape Breton, Nova Scotia. Explore Cape Breton’s history with the help of those who witnessed it firsthand. Listen to the mad ramblings of a Scottish exile as he describes what life was like in the Fortress of Louisbourg, follow the rising career of a French sailor destined to explore the world, and feel the despair as an aristocratic trailblazer struggles to eke out a living on Cape Breton's unforgiving shores.

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02b - Helen Creighton and the Mystery of “Louisbourg’s Lament”

The Lost World of Cape Breton Island

9 minutes 32 seconds

3 years ago

02b - Helen Creighton and the Mystery of “Louisbourg’s Lament”

Note - Since the publishing of this podcast, historian Éva Guillorel from the University of Rennes in France has done significant research into the origins of “La Complainte de Louisbourg.” She has uncovered evidence that this Acadian folksong is based on an older French song written about one of the sieges of Philippsburg. Her findings were published in the Spring 2022 edition of the journal Acadiensis and updates some of the information found in this episode.The second part of episode 2 analyzes the lyrics of “Louisbourg’s Lament” in order to see how it holds up against the historical record of the fall of Louisbourg in 1745. Special thanks to Robert Deveaux, folklorist and song keeper from Chéticamp, for supplying much of the information regarding “La complainte de Louisbourg”SHOW NOTES: MUSICAL CREDITS:-- “Malvina” - recorded by Robert DeveauxVIDEO CREDITS: -- "Louisbourg Under Siege", National Film Board of CanadaPHOTO CREDITS:-- Lewis Parker, artist-- “Plan de Philisbourg, 1750”, Bibliothèque Nationale de France GallicaSOURCES: 1.Conrad Laforte, La catalogue de la chanson folklorique française, vol 6. Presses Université Laval, 1983 p. 409-423 2. Ægidius Fauteux, Les Du Ponts de l’Acadie. Bulletin des Recherches Historiques, August and September 1940 3. George M. Wrong, M.A., Lettre d’un Habitant de Louisbourg, Warwick Bro’s & Rutter, 1897