Colonial French Louisiana
Colonial French Louisiana was a part of New France. Beginning in 1682 this region, known in French as la Louisiane française, functioned as an administrative district of New France. It extended from the Gulf of Mexico to Vincennes now in Indiana. France ceded the region to Spain and Britain in 1763, regained part by treaty in 1800, and sold it to the United States in 1803 through the Louisiana Purchase.
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“The North will at least preserve your flesh for you; Northerners are pale for good and all. There’s very little difference between a dead Swede and a young man who’s had a bad night. But the Colonial is full of maggots the day after he gets off the boat.”
—Louis-Ferdinand Céline (1894–1961)
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—Robert Benchley (1889–1945)
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—Benjamin Harrison (1833–1901)