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Noted American popular culture figures who maintained a close connection to their French roots include musician Rudy Vallée (1901–1986) who grew up in Westbrook, Maine, a child of a French-Canadian father and an Irish mother, [49] and counter-culture author Jack Kerouac (1922–1969) who grew up in Lowell, Massachusetts. Kerouac was the ...
Pages in category "French-American culture" The following 9 pages are in this category, out of 9 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. C. Calliope (music) F.
French cuisine is a major part of French culture, and French food is often regarded as among the best in the world, with The Guardian stating "a really fine French dish represents one of the undisputed pinnacles of human cultural achievement." [10] The French are commonly regarded to enjoy eating cheese, snails, frog legs, and plenty of bread ...
Cheyenne (from the French pronunciation and spelling of the Dakota word Sahi'yena, a diminutive of Sahi'ya, a Dakotan name for the Cree people. [188]) Cheyenne River; Dubois (named after U.S. Senator Fred Dubois, of French-Canadian ancestry) Fontenelle; Fort Laramie; Fremont County (named for John C. Frémont, French-American pioneer and ...
French-American culture in Mississippi (10 P) French-American culture in Missouri (1 C, 23 P) N. French-American culture in Nebraska (2 P) French-American history of ...
As of 2006, 79% of all Quebecers list French as their mother tongue; [1] since French is the official language in the province, up to 95% of all residents speak French. [2] The 2001 census showed the population to be 90.3 percent Christian (in contrast to 77 percent for the whole country) with 83.4 percent Catholic (including 83.2 percent Roman ...
French America (French: Amérique française), sometimes called Franco-America, in contrast to Anglo-America, is the French-speaking community of people and their diaspora, notably those tracing back origins to New France, the early French colonization of the Americas. The Canadian province of Quebec is the centre of the community and is the ...
France-Amérique was created in 1943 by French exiles in New York City to raise awareness about Occupied France in the United States, and to support the Resistance movement led by Charles de Gaulle. In the 1960s, it became the property of the French daily, Le Figaro , [ 1 ] as a weekly international edition, and became the newspaper of ...