Meanwhile, the Bourbon era of France was beginning. In , a French commoner-turned-New World fur trader named Sieur de Cadillac conned Felipe V into giving him a fortune to search for gold in New Orleans, though Bienville had already warned him there was none. But there was no gold, and no one wanted to move to a New World swamp. You know the little fleur-de-lis that fill gift shops in the French Quarter? Well, the symbol made its mark quite literally on New Orleans because French prostitutes were branded with it when they were rounded up and shipped off to Louisiana.
They brought with them music, and the phrase vaudeville voix de ville , to describe the vulgar popular music they sanitized with edited Christian lyrics. The few people there were in New Orleans started making money fast. Quebec fur traders infamous for their Wild West lifestyle and attitude came down to make money, and the sex workers and criminals brought in from France contributed to a general aura of libertinage.
Prostitution, slave trade, and piracy kept the city afloat for more than a century. When Spain took over in the s, the city was not willing to change its ways easily. Gray Taylor, Louisiana: A History Search The Canadian Encyclopedia. Remember me. I forgot my password. Why sign up? Create Account. Suggest an Edit. Enter your suggested edit s to this article in the form field below. Accessed 13 November In The Canadian Encyclopedia.
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Photo taken on: June 4, May 27, Previous Next. Their members now include people Irish and Spanish ancestry, as well as a lesser extent of Germans and Italians. Historian Carl A. Brasseaux asserted that this process of intermarriage created the Cajuns in the first place. Louisiana French is still a vernacular language.
But it is estimated that between , and , people can speak it in Louisiana. The true test is, however, whether or not a person speaking Cajun French can understand and be understood by other French speakers. These were the French immigrants who were expelled from Nova Scotia, and eventually landed in Louisiana after decades of hardship and exile.
While Louisiana is known for spice and flavor, Cajun food is not the healthiest. The French settlers who colonized the land and coexisted alongside Indigenous peoples became called Acadians.
Begin typing your search term above and press enter to search. Press ESC to cancel. Ben Davis May 7, How did the French influence Louisiana? Why was Louisiana important to the French? How did the settlement of Louisiana benefit France?
What was the sole purpose of the French for colonizing Louisiana? Why did French colonies fail? Why was it difficult to settle in Louisiana? Ultimately, they feared the English would win the conflict, and French influence over New Orleans and the surrounding territory would come to an inglorious end. The Treaty of Fontainebleau was kept secret for nearly a year, and once the French colonists learned of its existence, they revolted. With an already diverse population of French, Creole and Africans both slaves and free settlers , the Spanish had a difficult time governing the colony.
Although they afforded settlers there more freedom than they did those of their other colonies in South America, for example , there were significant restrictions imposed on trade.
Less than 40 years later, perhaps weary of governing a troublesome colony, and feeling the threat of an ambitious French military leader, the brash young Napoleon Bonaparte , Spain relinquished the Louisiana Territory and New Orleans back to France via another secret treaty, the Treaty of San Ildefonso, in However, faced with a slave uprising on the island of Saint Domingue what is now the Dominican Republic and Haiti and the specter of a war with Great Britain over control of Louisiana, Napoleon had a decision to make: Rather than send troops to defend New Orleans, which the British saw for its value as a port, and the surrounding territory, the military leader dispatched 20, soldiers to Saint Domingue to quell the slave revolt, leaving New Orleans and French Louisiana essentially defenseless in the event of a British attack.
Seeing an opportunity, Thomas Jefferson , President of the United States at the time, and his Secretary of State James Madison , decided to fashion an alliance of sorts with the French government. Part and parcel of this relationship was the future governance of Louisiana. It may be more than years since the French have controlled New Orleans, but their influence is obvious in the city to this day—in culture, cuisine, language and geography.
And, of course, there is the French Quarter itself, with its streets still bearing the names given them by the early French settlers and its French- and Spanish-influenced architecture.
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