Louisiana (New France) (redirect from La Louisiane)
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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Louisiana French (redirect from Français de la Louisiane (Louisiana French))
Louisiana French (Louisiana French: français de la Louisiane; Louisiana Creole: françé la lwizyàn) is an umbrella term for the dialects and varieties...
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Louisiana Purchase (redirect from Vente de la Louisiane)
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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Louisiana State Senate (redirect from Sénat de Louisiane)
The Louisiana State Senate (French: Sénat de L'État de Louisiane; Spanish: Senado del Estado de Luisiana) is the upper house of the state legislature...
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Louisiane Saint Fleurant (11 September 1924 – 1 June 2005) was a Haitian female artist and painter. She was a founder of the peasant Saint Soleil art...
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ethnographer, historian, and naturalist who is best known for his Histoire de la Louisiane. It was first published in twelve installments from 1751 to 1753 in the...
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claimed the Mississippi River basin for France after giving it the name La Louisiane. One source states that "he acquired for France the most fertile half...
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would indicate it clearly on his maps. For instance, his Carte de la Louisiane shows a river that the baron of Lahontan claimed he discovered. As no...
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ISBN 978-1-58980-156-1. Faure, Guillemette. "Jour de fête dans une prison de Louisiane." Le Figaro. October 15, 2007. Retrieved on August 30, 2010. "En pleine...
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strongly held regional identities. In the 150th anniversary year of the start of the Civil War, the region at the heart of the conflict has little left...
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S. of 828,800 square miles (2,147,000 km2) of the French province La Louisiane. In all mayoral elections since 1930, New Orleans has used a two-round...
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Louis XIV sent the pair to defend France's claim on the territory of Louisiane, which included what are now the U.S. states of Alabama, Mississippi,...
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unusual for folk groups), and its sound has evolved accordingly. The band started out with a very French Canadian feel with guitar, accordion and fiddle...
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American Sodom: New Orleans Faces Its Critics and an Uncertain Future. La Louisiane à la dérive. The École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales Coloquio...
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in Port Gibson were French colonists in 1729; it was part of their La Louisiane. After the United States acquired the territory from France in 1803 in...
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New France (section The economy of La Louisiane)
colonies late in the 17th century, naming it for King Louis XIV, as La Louisiane. In 1682, René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle explored the Ohio River...
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originally been claimed and controlled by France, which had named it La Louisiane in honor of King Louis XIV in 1682. Spain secretly acquired the territory...
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and La Louisiane, the ports of New Orleans and Mobile, Alabama. In the early 1750s, the French began construction of a line of forts, starting with Fort...
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Fort Louis de la Louisiane, at Twenty-seven Mile Bluff on the Mobile River, as the first capital of the French colony of La Louisiane. It was founded by...
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Academy in Paris. In Saint-Domingue, as in other French colonies such as Louisiane, the free people of color constituted a third caste between the whites...
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specimen collected in Louisiana. He used the French name Le gros-bec de la Louisiane and the Latin Coccothraustes Ludoviciana. Although Brisson coined Latin...
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any race or mixture thereof who are descended from colonial French La Louisiane and colonial Spanish Louisiana (New Spain) settlers before the Louisiana...
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Canada 1702 Le Moyne Alabama United States Founded as Fort Louis de la Louisiane by France; abandoned in 1711. 1703 Amherst Massachusetts United States...
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States of America 1862–present Louisiana Creoles (French: Créoles de la Louisiane, Louisiana Creole: Moun Kréyòl la Lwizyàn, Spanish: Criollos de Luisiana)...
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Salle buries an engraved plate and a cross, claiming the territory as La Louisiane for France. May 6 – Louis XIV of France moves his court to Versailles...
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Another reminder of Napoléon was the splendid Allée de Cyprès chauves de Louisiane, a double-lined bald cypress (Taxodium distichum) avenue. At the time...
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and inhabitants referred to the Middle Mississippi Valley as La Haute Louisiane, "The High Louisiana", or "Upper Louisiana". The first European settlers...
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Mississippi River with the intention of colonizing the region as part of La Louisiane or New France in North America. Fearful that Spanish territory would be...
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Five years later, La Salle claimed the region for France as part of La Louisiane, also known as Louisiana. The earliest European settlements in the Illinois...
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