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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.
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]
Pages in category "French feminine given names" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 255 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
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:
Jean Talon, Bishop François de Laval and several settlers welcome the King's Daughters upon their arrival. Painting by Eleanor Fortescue-Brickdale. 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.
Long-time president of the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies: 1800–1874: Astrid Stampe Feddersen: Denmark: 1852: 1930: Chaired the first Scandinavian meeting on women's rights: 1800–1874: Anna Filosofova: Russia: 1837: 1912: Early Russian woman's rights activist: 1800–1874: Louise Flodin: Sweden: 1828: 1923: 1800–1874: Mary ...
French: 1970: 2018: French poet and long-distance horseback adventurer in Africa, Middle East and Europe Louise Bourbonnaud: French: 1847: 1915: French philanthropist, explorer and writer who traveled alone through North and South America and the Far East Louise Arner Boyd: American: 1887: 1972: Explored Greenland and the Arctic Beatrix ...
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 .