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	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: New Orleans
		Its original territory comprised the ancient Louisiana purchase and East and West Florida, being bounded on the north by the Canadian line, on the west by the Rocky Mountains and the Rio Perdito, on the east by the Diocese of Baltimore, and on the south by the Diocese of Linares and the Archdiocese of Durango.
		The Jesuit Fathers of New Orleans had no parochial residence, but directed the Ursulines, and had charge of their private chapel and a plantation where, in 1751, they introduced into Louisiana the culture of the sugar-cane, the orange, and the fig.
		In 1853 New Orleans was decimated by the worst outbreak of yellow fever in its history, seven priests and five sisters being among its victims.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/11005b.htm (12816 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Louisiana
		The founders of Louisiana had made the mistake of neglecting the banks of the Mississippi, when the fort on the river was abandoned in 1705, and, although there was Old Biloxi and Mobile, the settlement could not proposer as long as it was limited in its site to the land on the gulf.
		The inhabitants of Louisiana resolved to expel the foreign governor, and held a meeting in New Orleans, where it was decided to present a petition to the Superior Council on 28 Oct., 1768.
		The present state of Louisiana is bounded on the south by the Gulf of Mexico; on the east by the state of Mississippi; on the west by the State of Texas, and on the north by the State of Arkansas.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/09378a.htm (5714 words)

	UL Lafayette: Center for Louisiana Studies: Collections and Archives (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		The holdings of the Louisiana Colonial Records Collection are from the archives historiques and primarily from the division of correspondence.
		LOUISIANA MATERIALS: Although many colonial documents were taken to Europe by withdrawing French and Spanish administrators, a large body of eighteenth-century materials remains in Louisiana.
		Particularly significant to Louisiana studies are the Montfort Browne letters in the West Florida papers relating to the New Orleans Rebellion of 1768.
	cls.louisiana.edu /collections-archives.shtml (1222 words)

	A SHORT HISTORY OF NEW FRANCE
		France's earliest thrust to claim some of the new world for itself is in the Spring of 1534, when Francis I sends a French sailor, Jacques Cartier, from St-Malo in Brittany on April 20, with sixty-one men.
		France demands from England the return of New France and Acadia, a demand that is finally acknowledged by the Treaty of St-Germain-en-Laye in 1632.
		France has two main interests in the new world, exploiting the land for monetary gain, principally through the trade in furs, and converting "the pagan savage souls" to Catholicism.
	gapellet.brinkster.net /history.htm (4539 words)

	New France 1663-1744
		France was way behind the Dutch and the English in shipping, and the Crown had to provide most of the capital and pay dividends to try to attract investors.
		The war in New France was costing 200,000 livres a year, and in 1693 the Minister ordered the bounties reduced to six livres for male prisoners, three for female prisoners, and three for scalps.
		France and England signed a treaty at Ryswick in September 1697, and territory in North America was to revert to the pre-war situation; most of the prisoners were exchanged.
	www.san.beck.org /11-6-NewFrance1663-1744.html (15325 words)

	Louisiana (New France) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Explored under the reign of Louis XIV of France and named by Robert Cavelier de La Salle in his honor in 1682, Louisiana was not greatly developed due to a lack of human and financial resources.
		Louisiana's southern border was formed by the Gulf of Mexico, which served as the port for the colony.
		Pierre Moyne d'Iberville was governor of Louisiana from 1699 to 1702.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Louisiana_(New_France) (5524 words)

	New Catholic Dictionary: New France (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		"France aimed to subdue not by the sword but by the Cross, not to overwhelm and crush the nations she invaded, but to convert, civilize and embrace them among her children" (Parkman, Pioneers of France, 462).
		The "Relations" of their missionary labors stirred the soul of France, and inspired in her noble youth the spirit of sacrifice, and the abandonment of a life of ease for the perilous work of the Indian missions that meant untold hardship, and, for many, cruel torture and martyrdom.
		The bulk of the trade of New France was in furs, and the custom of inducing the Indians to trade furs for rum was a matter of bitter contention between the ecclesiastical and the civil authorities.
	www.catholic-forum.com /Saints/ncd05686.htm (412 words)

	HIFC Timeline - Cajun Migration to Louisiana
		An epic story that begins two centuries before the Louisiana Purchase, the Acadian people, or Cajuns, who settled the Gulf Coast, are among the most enduring cultures to migrate to the New World.
		France constructs Fort St. Denis on the Cane River to defend its frontier against Spain, which is approaching from Texas to build a fort only miles away at Los Adaes in the Louisiana territory.
		With the end of the French and Indian War between Great Britain and France (called the Seven Years War in Europe), the Treaty of Paris returns 800 Acadians who were held prisoner for seven years in England to French ports of Ste.
	www.houstonculture.org /vc/cajuntime.html (438 words)

	French Creole Architecture
		However, as noted by Louisiana plantation specialist Barbara Bacot, it was less a taste for squab than for status that exalted the pigeonnier.
		Bacot, in Louisiana Buildings, 1720-1940, notes that in France only landowners had the right to keep pigeons under the Old Regime, and some of the landed gentry chose to frame their houses with pairs of dovecotes.
		In Louisiana, pigeonniers used in the form of monumental towers set near the main house continued as a fashion well into the 19th century.
	www.cr.nps.gov /nr/travel/louisiana/architecture.htm (661 words)

	New France - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In 1536, Jacques Cartier planted a cross in the Gaspé peninsula and claimed the land in the name of King Francis I.
		In 1754, the French and Indian War began as the North American phase of the Seven Years' War (which did not technically begin in Europe until 1756), with the defeat of a Virginia militia contingent led by Colonel George Washington by the French troupes de la marine in the Ohio valley.
		And all New France territory under the great lake become the possession of the american.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/New_France (2502 words)

	The Louisiana Purchase
		Louisiana Purchase was the largest and most extraordinary land purchase in the history of the United States.
		And the Louisiana Territory had a lot of land.
		Many Americans lived in and around New Orleans, and many American ships sailed back and forth on the river.
	www.socialstudiesforkids.com /articles/ushistory/louisianapurchase.htm (276 words)

	Louisiana Weekly - Your Community. Your Newspaper.
		Over the past year, several French agencies-both private and public have provided assistance to New Orleans artists and local artistic projects, working through the offices of the Consulate of France in New Orleans.
		The French Government Tourist Office is holding its 2006 conference in New Orleans this week (October 22-23) to show its support for New Orleans and Louisiana.
		The nonprofit La Napoule Foundation is providing residences to ten New Orleans visual artists to reside six weeks in the Chateau de La Napoule, which is located in the South of France, in 2006/2007.
	www.louisianaweekly.com /weekly/news/articlegate.pl?20061023k (568 words)

	ACADIAN-CAJUN Genealogy: French-Canadian Settlers in Louisiana
		In the early 1600s, New France consisted of Acadia and the St. Lawrence Valley.
		By the end of the century, France not only claimed the today's eastern Canadian area, but also the Louisiana territory.
		As the 18th century progressed, there was a certain amount of immigration from Canada to Louisiana...
	www.acadian-cajun.com /frcan.htm (180 words)

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