Little Paris Books
Who We Are
Little Paris Books focuses it content primarily to the history -
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Geographic area,
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Where they came from? why did they leave?
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Culture,
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Art,
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Literary,
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biographies
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Family
and
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Military
of the Louisiana-French,
especially St. Martin Parish (county) and St. Martinville (nicknamed le Petit Paris or Little Paris).
This area is marked with flor-de-lis,
the official symbol for the State of Louisiana
Longfellow-Evangeline Special Books is the first series and here are the planned book types:
1. Restoring historical versions of Evangeline with expected October 2025 availability:
- 1850 -1930,
- Superbly illustrated from the restorations, including woodblock engravings and full color photos, paintings and other artwork,
- Historic context section that is extensive, informative and interesting and well-researched and illustrated
- Two were published with French translation
2. Extractions of the artwork from approximately 25 historic and superbly illustrated editions
- Organized by artist
-Biographic sketch of the artist
- Curated samples of their other artwork
HOW ARE WE DIFFERENT
Little Paris Books
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Has a rich collection of original historic books which are in good condition
- The cover and each page receive high resolution scans
- The scans go through text and image optimization reviews, with all needed corrections made
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Mr. Lawrence-Martin Capuder is passionate about the subject matter because he has this ancestry
- Researcher, which learned from his mother - a librarian - and 15 years as an auditor
- Curator of interesting historic narratives and images to support the historic context,
- Author
and
- Publisher
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Each book has:
- a Table of Contents
- List of Illustrations
- A detailed index
Mr. Capuder's first book from 1999
He has already drafted many sections of the 2nd Edition
