A Survivor's Tale
“The fate of a woman forgotten by history”
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1542, the year of Jacques Cartier's second mission to Canada. Pregnant by a man other than her future husband, the expedition's commander, the young Marguerite de la Rocque is abandoned on a deserted island off the coast of Newfoundland with the man who raped her and his maid. She will remain there for two years, surviving hunger, cold, despair, and madness.
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Salomé Dewaels
Marguerite de la Rocque
Louis Peres
Thomas d'Artois
Candice Bouchet
Damienne Latour
Alexandra Lamy
Marguerite de Navarre
Patrick Descamps
Jean-François de Roberval
Alexandre Gavras
Le Roi François 1er
Eddy Frogeais
Cardinal 2
Corentin Lobet
Le Second