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Alfred Mercier (June 3, 1816 - May 12, 1894) was a Creole doctor, poet, playwright, novelist, and philosopher. He spoke Greek, Latin, French, and Louisiana Creole. He wrote seven French novels and is considered a post-American Civil War author and contributor to the literature of New Orleans.
Louis-Sebastien Mercier, L'An deux mille quatre cent quarante (The Year 2440), vol. II, Paris, Lepetit Jeune et Gerard, 1802 Mercier's L'An 2440, rêve s'il en fut jamais (literally, "The Year 2440: A Dream If Ever There Was One"; translated into English as Memoirs of the Year Two Thousand Five Hundred [sic]; and into German as Das Jahr zwey tausend vier hundert und vierzig: Ein Traum aller ...
Lockport is a town on Bayou Lafourche in Lafourche Parish, Louisiana, United States. The population was 2,490 in 2020. The population was 2,490 in 2020. It is part of the Houma – Bayou Cane – Thibodaux metropolitan statistical area .
Désiré Félicien François Joseph Mercier (21 November 1851 – 23 January 1926) was a Belgian Catholic prelate who served as Archbishop of Mechelen from 1906 until his death in 1926. A Thomist scholar, he had several of his works translated into other European languages. He was known for his book, Les origines de la psychologie contemporaine ...
Inspired by the true story of an African American teenager who shook up a small town where high school proms had been racially segregated for decades. Amid the protests of the community and with the help of a newspaper reporter who returns to her hometown to cover the story, the two women are able to reverse decades of racist tradition and make history, at least for one night.
Kenny Ray Cox (born 1957), Louisiana state representative and former United States Army officer Milton Joseph Cunningham (1842–1916), Natchitoches and New Orleans lawyer, state senator from Natchitoches and DeSoto parishes from 1880 to 1884; state attorney general for three nonconsecutive terms ending in 1900, born in what became DeSoto Parish
Editor's Note: This page is a summary of news on Hurricane Francine for Wednesday, Sept. 11. For the latest, view our story for Thursday, Sept. 12. Francine made landfall along the Louisiana coast ...
[11] [12] [13] Since 1987, media sources have reported on segregated proms being held in the U.S. states of Alabama, [7] [14] Arkansas, [2] Georgia, [4] Louisiana, [3] Mississippi, [15] South Carolina, [16] and Texas. [17] In two places in Georgia, the "black prom" was open to attendance by all students. Only the "white prom" was racially ...