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	French Creoles \| The Quadroons
		The children born of the first generation of placage were called mulattoes, those of the second quadroons, of the octoroons and so on, according to the fraction of fl blood.
		For some reason the word "quadroon" became the term applied to light-skinned mistresses in general.
		It became a tradition for the mother to chaperone her daughter to the ball; the Frenchmen, after making his pick, negotiated with the young woman's mother as to how he was going to support her daughter, and then given permission to claim her as his mistress.
	www.frenchcreoles.com /CreoleCulture/quadroons/quadroons2.htm (610 words)

	Quadroon - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Quadroons were considered "colored" and often subject to slavery in the colonial era.
		The French writer Alexandre Dumas, père was a quadroon and, in spite of his talent and popularity had to endure racism.
		She uses the term to refer to the mixed ancestry of several characters; these include a family branch of the Mayfair Witches and the various prostitutes, barmaids or evildoers taken as victims by some of the vampires in The Vampire Chronicles.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Quadroon (323 words)

	Lives and Times of the Quadroons
		The duke, who was a brother-in-law of William IV (the uncle of Queen Victoria) said the Quadroons were "the most beautiful women in the world." if Victoria heard that, she probably washed her hands of the duke.
		The first ball, a sort of coming-out party sponsored by Quadroon mothers to introduce their daughters to white men, was called Bal de Cordon Bleu, and it was by this name that the balls were always known among the Creoles.
		Quadroon mothers objected to unwise connections for their daughters as strenuously as white mothers oppose an unwise marriage.
	www.nathanielturner.com /livesandtimesofquadroons.htm (2626 words)

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