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This category is for feminine given names from France and other French-speaking countries. Subcategories This category has the following 2 subcategories, out of 2 total.
List of U.S. state name etymologies; Lists of U.S. county name etymologies; List of place names of German origin in the United States; List of U.S. place names of Spanish origin; List of Chinook Jargon placenames; List of non-US places that have a US place named after them
The fort has sometimes been referred to as "Fort St. Louis" but that name was not used during the life of the settlement and appears to be a later invention. [27] Map of the French fort drawn by a member of the Spanish expedition that discovered the French colony in 1689. It marks the river, the colony's structures, and location of cannons.
In these same areas, many cities and geographic features retain their names given by the first Franco-American inhabitants, and in sum, 23 of the Contiguous United States were colonized in part by French pioneers or French Canadians, including settlements such as Iowa , Missouri , Kentucky and Michigan , among others. [10]
The King's Daughters (French: filles du roi [fij dy ʁwa], or filles du roy in the spelling of the era) were the approximately 800 young French women who immigrated to New France between 1663 and 1673 as part of a program sponsored by King Louis XIV. The program was designed to boost New France's population both by encouraging Frenchmen to move ...
This is a non-diffusing subcategory of Category:18th-century French people. It includes French people that can also be found in the parent category, or in diffusing subcategories of the parent. See also: Category:18th-century French men
The French were eager to explore North America but New France remained largely unpopulated. Due to the lack of women, intermarriages between French and Indians were frequent, giving rise to the Métis people. Relations between the French and Indians were usually peaceful. As the 19th-century historian Francis Parkman stated:
The first European to see Texas was Alonso Álvarez de Pineda, who led an expedition for the governor of Jamaica, Francisco de Garay, in 1520.While searching for a passage between the Gulf of Mexico and Asia, [17] Álvarez de Pineda created the first map of the northern Gulf Coast. [18]