Talk:French Louisiana

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I think "French Louisiana" should be distinguished/redirected in two parts:

(1) Colonial French Louisiana > New France (The Louisiana Purchase) 1682-1803 A.D. REFERENCES: http://www.louisiana.culture.fr/en/index.html http://www.lewis-clark.org/content/content-article.asp?ArticleID=1138

(2) Modern French Louisiana > Acadiana (Cajun Country) + New Orleans Area REFERENCES: http://www.louisianatravel.com/explorela/regions/cajuncountry/ In 1971, the Louisiana legislature adopted House Concurrent Resolution 496, which officially dubbed as Acadiana a twenty-two parish region of southern Louisiana. (Detailed description.) http://www.cajunculture.com/Other/acadiana.htm http://www.writingproject.org/cs/nwpp/print/nwpr/153 http://www2.tulane.edu/article_news_details.cfm?ArticleID=4233 French Louisiana (modern) is slightly bigger than Acadiana because many Creole French live in the southeastern part of the state: French Louisiana traces its origins from: "Cajuns descended from Acadian settlers expelled out of what is now eastern Canada; black or mixed-race Creoles from the Caribbean, West Africa and elsewhere; and white Creoles largely from France. Some native people also took up French through close contact with Francophones." (The Associated Press)

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That map doesn’t match either definiton: it’s just the modern-day state of Louisiana. 184.161.77.106 (talk) 15:48, 28 January 2024 (UTC)