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v. t. e. The French colonization of Texas started when Robert Cavelier de La Salle intended to found the colony at the mouth of the Mississippi River, but inaccurate maps and navigational errors caused his ships to anchor instead 400 miles (640 km) to the west, off the coast of Texas. The colony survived until 1688.
t. e. French Flemish (French Flemish: Fransch vlaemsch, Standard Dutch: Frans-Vlaams, French: flamand français) is a West Flemish dialect spoken in the north of contemporary France. Place names attest to Flemish having been spoken since the 8th century in the part of Flanders that was ceded to France at the 1659 Treaty of the Pyrenees, and ...
French colonization of Texas. The French Texas (1685−1689) — a short lived colonial area of the French Empire, that was located in present-day southeastern Texas. Established by Robert de La Salle in the western Colonial Louisiana region of the Viceroyalty of New France.
Terrebonne Parish ("Good Land") Timbalier Island (" timpani player") Tulane/Gravier New Orleans neighborhood named after Paul Tulane, philanthropist and son of Louis Tulane, a French immigrant. Vacherie ("Cowshed") Verdun. Versailles. Vieux Carré ("Old Square") also known as the French Quarter in New Orleans.
Fort Saint-Louis, Texas, was founded in 1685 by French explorer René-Robert Cavelier de La Salle and members of his expedition, including Jesuit missionary Zenobius Membre, on the banks of Garcitas Creek, a few kilometers inland from the mouth of the Lavaca River. La Salle had intended to establish the colony at the mouth of the Mississippi ...
History of Texas. Indigenous people lived in what is now Texas more than 10,000 years ago, as evidenced by the discovery of the remains of prehistoric Leanderthal Lady. In 1519, the arrival of the first Spanish conquistadors in the region of North America now known as Texas found the region occupied by numerous Native American tribes.
The French language is spoken as a minority language in the United States.Roughly 2.1 million Americans over the age of five reported speaking the language at home in a federal 2010 estimate, [1] [2] making French the fourth most-spoken language in the nation behind English, Spanish, and Chinese (when Louisiana French, Haitian Creole and all other French dialects and French-derived creoles are ...
The French in the Mississippi Valley (University of Illinois Press, 1965) McDermott, John F., ed. Frenchmen and French ways in the Mississippi Valley (1969) Marshall, Bill,ed. France and the Americas: Culture, Politics, and History (3 Vol 2005) Moogk, Peter N. La Nouvelle France: The Making of French Canada -A Cultural History (2000). 340 pp.