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  2. List of place names of French origin in the United States

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    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.

  3. French colonization of the Americas - Wikipedia

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    The French in North America, 1500-1783 (Fitzhenry & Whiteside Limited, 1998.), a standard scholarly survey Havard, Gilles, and Cécile Vidal, " Making New France New Again: French historians rediscover their American past Archived 2009-10-05 at the Wayback Machine ," Common-Place (July 2007) v 7

  4. New France - Wikipedia

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    New France (French: Nouvelle-France) was the territory colonized by France in North America, beginning with the exploration of the Gulf of Saint Lawrence by Jacques Cartier in 1534 and ending with the cession of New France to Great Britain and Spain in 1763 under the Treaty of Paris. A vast viceroyalty, New France consisted of five colonies at ...

  5. French Americans - Wikipedia

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    Country-wide, as of 2020, there are about 9.4 million U.S. residents who declare French ancestry [5] or French Canadian descent, and about 1.32 million [6] per the 2010 census, spoke French at home. [ 7 ] [ 8 ] An additional 750,000 U.S. residents speak a French-based creole language , according to the 2011 American Community Survey .

  6. Place name origins - Wikipedia

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    Place name origins. In much of the "Old World" (approximately Africa, Asia and Europe) the names of many places cannot easily be interpreted or understood; [1] they do not convey any apparent meaning in the modern language of the area. This is due to a general set of processes through which place names evolve over time, until their obvious ...

  7. French America - Wikipedia

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    Location map of French America. 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 ...

  8. List of French possessions and colonies - Wikipedia

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    The Fort Saint Louis (Texas) (1685–1689) Saint Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands (1650–1733) Fort Caroline in French Florida (occupation by Huguenots) (1562–1565) Vincennes and Fort Ouiatenon in Indiana. French Louisiana. Louisiana (New France) (1672–1764) Present-day Brazil. France Équinoxiale (Bay of São Luis) (1610–1615)

  9. List of French forts in North America - Wikipedia

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    French Fortresses in North America 1535–1763: Quebec, Montreal, Louisbourg and New Orleans. Osprey Publishing. ISBN 978-1-4728-0317-7. ^ a b Rene Chartrand (2013). The Forts of New France in Northeast America 1600–1763. Osprey Publishing. ISBN 978-1-4728-0318-4.