An 1826 prose epic titled for these people borrows from an earlier novella in which one of these people falls in love with a Christian woman, who later poisons herself out of regret for taking a vow of chastity. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name these people, one of whom named Chactas tells of his love for Atala in a Chateaubriand (“shah-toh-bree-AWN”) novella. A man marries one of these people after his sister Amélie dies in a convent in Chateaubriand’s René.
ANSWER: Natchez (“NATCH-iz”) people [accept Les Natchez; prompt on Native Americans or equivalents]
[10m] The title character of this author’s The Adventures of Robert Chevalier is kidnapped and raised by the Iroquois. The title character saves Don Alfonso and works for Duke Olivares in a picaresque by this French author, set in Spain.
ANSWER: Alain-René Lesage (“luh-SAHZH”) (The picaresque is Gil Blas.)
[10e] One of this author’s narrators lands among an unidentified group of Native Americans after an attempt to be carried to the moon by evaporating dew, a scene alluded to in an Edmond Rostand play.
ANSWER: Savinien de Cyrano de Bergerac [or Cyrano de Bergerac]
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