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Bookmark or Share- French Colonial Louisiana - 64 ParishesFrench Colonial Louisiana. Courtesy of The Historic New Orleans Collection. This map, dated 1765, shows the Louisiana Territory as claimed by France. French colonial Louisiana refers to the first century of permanent European settlement in the Lower Mississippi Valley. Native Americans, Europeans, and Africans contributed to the development of ...
- Louisiana French - WikipediaLouisiana French (Louisiana French: français de la Louisiane; Louisiana Creole: françé la lwizyàn) is an umbrella term for the dialects and varieties of the French language spoken traditionally by French Louisianians in colonial Lower Louisiana.
- History of the Colonial French Louisiana - La Grande Louisiane françaiseLouisiana was part of New France. Given that its territory was immense extending from the Gulf of Mexico to the Great Lakes and from the Appalachian Mountains to the Rockies, it would be more appropriate to refer to it as “Colonial French Louisiana”. In 1673, explorer Louis Jolliet and Jesuit Father Jacques Marquette were the first ...
- Louisiana (New France) - WikipediaLouisiana (French: Louisiane) or French Louisiana (Louisiane française) was an administrative district of New France. In 1682 the French explorer René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de la Salle erected a cross near the mouth of the Mississippi River and claimed the whole of the drainage basin of the Mississippi River in the name of King Louis XIV ...
- Louisiana French (Tools For Heritage Learners) - Relearn A Languageby Marissa Blaszko · March 26, 2021. Louisiana French was the lingua franca in much of the US for 200 years. Even today, after a century of English-only education and government, the language lives on–a living museum full of unique musical, culinary, and cultural traditions. This article is for both curious francophones and heritage language ...
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