author
Felix Voorhies
1839–1919
A Louisiana judge and writer, he is best remembered for preserving Acadian stories and for linking local history to the legend of Evangeline. His work draws on family memory and regional tradition, giving readers a vivid sense of nineteenth-century Cajun Louisiana.
1 Audiobook
Acadian Reminiscences : The True Story of Evangeline
by Felix Voorhies
About the author
Born in 1839 and dying in 1919, Felix Voorhies was a Louisiana attorney, judge, and author. Archival records from the University of Louisiana at Lafayette describe his papers as reflecting his legal career from about 1870 onward, while also preserving a large body of literary and historical writing.
He is best known for Acadian Reminiscences: With the True Story of Evangeline (1907). That book presents Acadian life in Louisiana and offers his account of the real people said to have inspired the Evangeline story, drawing in part on family tradition.
For audiobook listeners, Voorhies is especially interesting because his writing sits between memoir, folklore, and local history. Even when modern readers treat some of its claims with caution, his work remains an important window into how Acadian heritage was remembered and retold in early twentieth-century Louisiana.