Keywords: Les Défenseurs
Item 18859
Les Défenseurs, Lewiston-Auburn, 1915
Contributed by: Franco-American Collection, University of Southern Maine Libraries Date: 1915 Location: Lewiston; Auburn Media: Photoprint
Item 18872
Les Francs-Tireurs de Strasbourg, Lewiston, 1920
Contributed by: Franco-American Collection, University of Southern Maine Libraries Date: 1920 Location: Lewiston; Auburn Media: Photographic print
Exhibit
Lewiston, Maine's second largest city, was long looked upon by many as a mill town with grimy smoke stacks, crowded tenements, low-paying jobs, sleazy clubs and little by way of refinement, except for Bates College. Yet, a noted Québec historian, Robert Rumilly, described it as "the French Athens of New England."
