Articles | Encyclopédie du patrimoine culturel de l'Amérique française – histoire, culture, religion, héritage
par Piccinin, HelgiLouisiana,a land of cultural mixing, was officially proclaimed a French territory and namedin honour of King Louis XIV by explorer Cavelier de Lasalle in 1682. Theterritory subsequently changed hands several times—ceded to Spain in the Treatyof Paris in 1763, recovered by France in 1800, then, three years later, sold byNapoleon to the United States—but these shifts of allegiance did not lead tothe disappearance of French in the area. They did, however, produce a specificcultural... Читать дальше...