Louisiana (French: Louisiane) or French Louisiana (Louisiane française) was an administrative district of New France. In 1682 the French explorer René-Robert...
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French Louisiana (French: Louisiane française, Louisiana Creole: Lwizyàn françé) refers to two distinct regions: First, to historic French Louisiana,...
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Louisiana French (Louisiana French: français de la Louisiane; Louisiana Creole: françé la lwizyàn) is an umbrella term for the dialects and varieties of...
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Louisiana (Spanish: La Luisiana, [la lwiˈsjana]), or the Province of Louisiana (Provincia de La Luisiana), was a province of New Spain from 1762 to 1801...
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The Louisiana Purchase (French: Vente de la Louisiane, lit. 'Sale of Louisiana') was the acquisition of the territory of Louisiana by the United States...
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of Louisiana. With a population of 383,997 according to the 2020 U.S. census, it is the most populous city in Louisiana and the French Louisiana region;...
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Louisiana Creoles (French: Créoles de la Louisiane, Louisiana Creole: Moun Kréyòl la Lwizyàn, Spanish: Criollos de Luisiana) are a Louisiana French ethnic...
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The French Louisianians (French: Louisianais), also known as Louisiana French, are Latin French people native to the states that were established out...
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New France (French: Nouvelle-France) was the territory colonized by France in North America, beginning with the exploration of the Gulf of Saint Lawrence...
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French claim to the territory and the introduction of the name Louisiana, the first settlements in the southernmost portion of Louisiana (New France)...
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Saint Louis Cathedral is in the French Quarter of New Orleans, Louisiana, United States, on the Place John Paul II (French: Place Jean-Paul II), a promenaded...
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Louisiana (French: Louisiane [lwizjan] ; Spanish: Luisiana [lwiˈsjana]; Louisiana Creole: Lwizyàn) is a state in the Deep South and South Central regions...
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of Louisiana, comprising Louisiana (New France) and Louisiana (New Spain), respectively. At the same time, there are parts of present-day Louisiana which...
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The history of New Orleans, Louisiana traces the city's development from its founding by the French in 1718 through its period of Spanish control, then...
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Louisiana Creole is a French-based creole language spoken by fewer than 10,000 people, mostly in the US state of Louisiana. Also known as Kouri-Vini, it...
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Louis XIV of France) became a colony of the Kingdom of France in 1682, before passing to Spain in 1763. Louisiana became part of the Louisiana Purchase from...
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St. Martinville (French: Saint-Martin) is a city in and the parish seat of St. Martin Parish, Louisiana, United States. It lies on Bayou Teche, 13 miles...
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Look up Louisiana in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Louisiana is a state in the United States. Louisiana may also refer to: Louisiana (New France), a historical...
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Caroline in French Florida (occupation by Huguenots) (1562–1565) Vincennes and Fort Ouiatenon in Indiana French Louisiana Louisiana (New France) (1672–1764)...
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Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne de Bienville (category Governors of Louisiana (New France))
Bienville, was a French-Canadian colonial administrator in New France. Born in Montreal, he was an early governor of French Louisiana, appointed four separate...
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Illinois Country (redirect from Upper Louisiana)
referred to as Upper Louisiana (French: Haute-Louisiane [ot.lwi.zjan]; Spanish: Alta Luisiana)—was a vast region of New France claimed in the 1600s in...
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Missouri French may call themselves "créoles", as they are descendants of colonial Louisiana French people of the Illinois Country (Upper Louisiana) and their...
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New Iberia (French: La Nouvelle-Ibérie; Spanish: Nueva Iberia) is the largest city in and parish seat of Iberia Parish in the U.S. state of Louisiana...
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of Louisiana. The modern Supreme Court, composed of seven justices, meets in the French Quarter of New Orleans. The Supreme Court, and Louisiana state...
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New Roads (historically French: Poste-de-Pointe-Coupée) is a city in and the parish seat of Pointe Coupee Parish, Louisiana, United States. The center...
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Correction girls (category People of Louisiana (New France))
France to its colonies in America as brides for its colonists during the early 18th century. France was struggling to establish colonies in Louisiana...
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Beauregard Parish (French: Paroisse de Beauregard) is a parish located in the U.S. state of Louisiana. As of the 2020 census, the population was 36,549...
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called the French Quarter today, or simply "The Quarter", related to changes in the city with American immigration after the 1803 Louisiana Purchase. Most...
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Third Treaty of San Ildefonso (redirect from Preliminary and Secret Treaty between the French Republic and His Catholic Majesty the King of Spain, Concerning the Aggrandizement of His Royal Highness the Infant Duke of Parma in Italy and the Retrocession of Louisiana)
1800 between Spain and the French Republic by which Spain agreed in principle to exchange its North American colony of Louisiana for territories in Tuscany...
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Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac (category Governors of Louisiana (New France))
expansive Louisiana (New France) territory, and ordered him to take up his duties immediately, traveling via the Mississippi River. Louisiana (1710–1716)...
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