Matches in DBpedia 2014 for { ?s ?p Black Robe, first published in 1985, is a historical novel by Brian Moore set in New France in the 17th century.The novel follows Father Laforgue, a French Jesuit priest traveling up river to repopulate the mission to the Huron Indians. (The First Nations peoples called the priests "Black Robes".) It chronicles his interactions with the "heathen" tribes of Algonkian (friendly) and Iroquois (unfriendly), as well as his inner struggles of faith, as he travels upriver to bring salvation to the Hurons.Moore juxtaposes the "superstitious" religious beliefs of the Native people with the Christian religious beliefs of Father Laforgue, which the reader can see very nearly mirror each other.The book was adapted into the 1991 film of the same title directed by Bruce Beresford, for which Moore wrote the screenplay.. }
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- Black_Robe abstract "Black Robe, first published in 1985, is a historical novel by Brian Moore set in New France in the 17th century.The novel follows Father Laforgue, a French Jesuit priest traveling up river to repopulate the mission to the Huron Indians. (The First Nations peoples called the priests "Black Robes".) It chronicles his interactions with the "heathen" tribes of Algonkian (friendly) and Iroquois (unfriendly), as well as his inner struggles of faith, as he travels upriver to bring salvation to the Hurons.Moore juxtaposes the "superstitious" religious beliefs of the Native people with the Christian religious beliefs of Father Laforgue, which the reader can see very nearly mirror each other.The book was adapted into the 1991 film of the same title directed by Bruce Beresford, for which Moore wrote the screenplay.".