MADAME CASTEL'S LODGER Author:FRANCES PARKINSON KEYES This is the story of a famous man who was over-shadowed by General Lee's great accomplishments in Virginia. Pierre G.T.Beauregard,a French Creole, became a popular military leader in the Mexican War sharing his assignments with Robert E. Lee, in the Engineering Division of the U.S. Army. This story of his life starts in June of 1865 when he come... more »s home to New Orleans a penniless pauper in threadbare clothes. How can a man who has know fame and fortune and feels his destiny is to greatness face such defeat? This wonderful story covers his transition from depression and failure to one of hope. This comes through the care and concern for his health and well-being as shown to him by his landlady and her mother in the very house where he and his second wife had lived so briefly during the first year of marriage before the start of the War. Through his evenings at their supper table, he shares the stories of his life and reveals the wonderful opportunities he had to serve and lead. His childhood on a southern Louisiana plantation, his schooling at a private school in New York City and subsequent assignment to West Point, his love of his first wife and her tragic death at an early age all are described in flashbacks that are interspersed with his attempt to find suitable employment and write his memoirs« less