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    § Brackets and transcription delimiters. Missouri French (French: français du Missouri) or Illinois Country French (French: français du Pays des Illinois) also...
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    distinct from the varieties of Canadian French and Louisiana French. Once widely spoken throughout the area, Missouri French is now nearly extinct, with only...
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    and the Missouri French (Illinois Country Creoles). The term Créole was originally used by French settlers to distinguish people born in French Louisiana...
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  • 20th-century Canadian migrants Missouri French, spoken in Missouri by descendants of French settlers in the Illinois Country Muskrat French, spoken in Michigan by...
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    French Village is an unincorporated community in eastern St. Francois County, Missouri, United States. It is located approximately ten miles east of Bonne...
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  • Mines (French: La Vieille Mine) is the name of an unincorporated community and surrounding area in southeast Missouri that were settled by French colonists...
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    Florissant (/ˈflɒrɪsənt/ ) is a city in St. Louis County, Missouri, within Greater St. Louis. It is a middle-class, second-ring northern suburb of St....
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    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 French Guianese French Meridional French Haitian French Indian French Jersey Legal French Lao French Louisiana French Cajun French Missouri French South...
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    of the French language that developed in what is now the United States, the others being Louisiana French and the nearly extinct Missouri French, Muskrat...
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  • the early settlers were of French descent. U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: French Town, Missouri "Washington County Place Names...
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  • Frenchville French Louisiana French Missouri French Muskrat French New England French (a variety of Canadian French spoken in New England) Haitian French Saint-Barthélemy...
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    Varieties of the French language are spoken in France and around the world. The Francophones of France generally use Metropolitan French[citation needed]...
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    the upper Missouri River. It was the starting point of the Boone's Lick Road to the Boonslick. St. Charles was settled primarily by French-speaking colonists...
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    of all Germans in Missouri Rhineland owned real estate, and were the highest employed group in the region, besides the Missouri French; they were artisans...
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    Franco-Canadians (French: Franco-Canadiens), are an ethnic group who trace their ancestry to French colonists who settled in France's colony of Canada...
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    independent city in the U.S. state of Missouri. It is located near the confluence of the Mississippi and the Missouri rivers. In 2020, the city proper had...
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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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    Genevieve (French: Sainte-Geneviève [sɛ̃t ʒən.vjɛv]) is a city in Ste. Genevieve Township and is the county seat of Ste. Genevieve County, Missouri, United...
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    passed through Spanish and French hands before becoming part of the United States through the Louisiana Purchase. The Missouri River was one of the main...
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  • French Mills is an unincorporated community in western Madison County, in the U.S. state of Missouri. The community is on [Little Rock Creek (St. Francis...
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    England French Missouri French Colonial French New France Quebec Saint Pierre and Miquelon Cajun Louisiana Louisiana Creole Latin America French language...
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    state. The three colors also highlight the French influence on the state in its early years. The Missouri flag was established on March 22, 1913, when...
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    post in the area around 1733. He was a French soldier stationed at Kaskaskia between 1704 and 1720 in the French colony of La Louisiane. The "Cape" in...
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    France : '"... until the end of the fifteenth century, the French of the chancellery spread as a political and literary language because the French court...
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  • French Village may refer to: French Village, Barbados French Village, Missouri French Village, Nova Scotia Un village français (A French Village), a French...
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  • Missouri is a 2017 crime drama film written, directed, and co-produced by Martin McDonagh and starring Frances McDormand as Mildred Hayes, a Missouri...
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    Albert O. French and Charles C. French, brothers who initially were partners with J.F. Gerleman, started French Gerleman in St. Louis, Missouri. The 1930s...
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    continued existence of the term Créole in the critically endangered Missouri French. The Mississippi Gulf Coast region has a significant population of...
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  • between 1857 and 1887 Paw Paw Tunnel, in Maryland "paw-paw French", a nickname of the Missouri French Pawpawsaurus, or pawpaw Lizard, a dinosaur Paw Paws, a...
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