Bayou Folk & a Night in Acadie Delivery:OS indigenous culture that endured through

indigenous culture that endured through the Roman occupation of Britain

patients shut in coffins

captured the crucial hill

soaked in blood and blackened by the flames of war

Introduction and Notes by Professor Stephen Arkin

Bayou Folk & a Night in Acadie Delivery:OS indigenous culture that endured throughIn the decade prior to the publication of her landmark novel, THE AWAKENING (1899), Kate Chopin wrote about ninety short stories, a selection of which appeared in BAYOU FOLK (1894) and A NIGHT IN ACADIE (1897). Chopin was deeply influenced by thework of the French and American realists and her portraits of the inhabitants of nineteenth century New Orleans and Natchitoches Parish offer one of the most compassionate views of life in American realistic