Édouard Richard, Acadie/Tome III
“ I know nothing more deeply pathetic ; and we may wonder, with a sentiment kindred to religious awe, at the retribution on this deed of wrong, when, at the end of a century, we find Poetry stooping to pick up from oblivion the obscure tradition of the Acadian exiles, and writing it in characters of living light to last for ever. Let any one look through accredited histories of the day, or even contemporary correspondence more recently published, and he will find no allusion to this Exodus of the Acadians, I have curiously examined, but in vain. ”
