Author Event! Richard Robbins 'First Lady of the New World"

Author Richard Robbins will discuss his new book, First Lady of the New World,” at 7 p.m., Monday, March 23, at the East Bank Regional Library, 4747 W. Napoleon, Metairie. This event is free of charge and open to the public. 

Felicite St. Maxent, the brilliant and beautiful daughter of a wealthy businessman in colonial New Orleans, is tragically widowed at the age of eighteen. She soon meets the young Spanish General Bernardo de Galvez on his first day as governor, and despite the scandal of their courtship, they receive the King's blessing to marry.

Through wisdom and bravery, they restore New Orleans to prosperity and, through epic battles, drive the British from the American South, becoming heroes of the American Revolution.

Felicite and Bernardo travel to Europe and enchant the Royal Courts throughout the continent before being named Viceroyals of Mexico City, the most powerful position in the New World. It is there that they meet their greatest challenges and peril.

Richard Robbins says he has always liked telling good stories, but not until his youngest child left for college was he able to find the time to put them into print. His first novel, Love, Loss, and Lagniappe was inspired by actual events in his life, and uses his medical and business school background to explore the journey of self-discovery after heartbreaking loss, while revealing the scientific basis for the meaning of life. His second novel, Panicles, is a multi-generational story of the intersecting fate of two families, and the price of fame versus the simpler pleasures of a grounded life.

For more information regarding this event, contact Chris Smith, Manager of Adult Programming for the library, at 504-889-8143 or wcsmith@jefferson.lib.la.us.