The Jumping Frenchmen
The "Jumpers" or "Jumping Frenchmen" were an example of excess nerve-force.
They were mostly French Canadian lumberjacks in the Moosehead Lake and Beauce regions of Maine and Quebec.
George M. Beard, M.D. (American Nervousness: Its Causes and Consequences, 1881) wrote ...
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