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🔊 EN 🇨🇦 🇺🇸 Two centuries of Levasseur presence in the American press
A search for the Levasseur surname within the Library of Congress’s historical newspaper database, Chronicling America, uncovered thousands of archived pages spanning nearly two centuries. The greatest concentration of these records appears in the Le Messager newspaper of Lewiston, Maine, largely driven by serialized fiction featuring a fictional character named Florence Levasseur. Meanwhile, high search numbers in Juneau, Alaska, stem not from a large local population, but from the frequent mentions of a prominent local Jesuit priest, Father William G. LeVasseur. These archival findings…
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