What Happened with the French of The U.S after the Louisiana Purchase?

What Happened with the French of The U.S after the Louisiana Purchase?

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[Dieu_Moqueur]

En tant que Québécois, je dis bonjour à tous les Franco-Américains, continuez à vous battre pour conserver votre culture unique et votre Français et n’ayez pas peur d’élever votre voix et de montrer votre présence, votre combat et votre volonté sont dignes d’admiration et d’exemple pour tout Francophone dans le monde!

[theodoresmith]

The number of French in this area was very low. It wasn't like America bought the land and moved in. It probably took years for anyone to even notice a difference..the French fur traded mostly and I'm sure that went right on happening.

[michaelchen]

There were French speakers that lingered on quite vigorously in Louisiana until the state of Louisiana mandated that all public school instruction be in English the same thing happened in Maine and other states that had a large French-speaking population

This mandate of English only instruction occurred around World War I and there was a push to assimilate people into American culture. American society and English-speaking literacy was a big part of it, but it wasn’t done on. It was done at the state level.

As of now there’s been a movement to try to resurrect use of the French language in both Maine and Louisiana. It’s an uphill battle because we live in an English language bubble in the United States.

Fortunately, the language is linguistically close enough that it isn’t too hard to pick up some basic conversation skills, but you have to have a community to practice them in. That is the challenge.

[mericanmadesoldier]

We’re still here… south of I-10 in Louisiana

[jLjtremblay]

On est toujours icitte (au Minnesota)!

[cadiencanaille]

On est toujours ici et on va rester ici..

[jeffdege]

My ancestors worked as translators and traders, in the Ohio and upper Mississippi valleys.

[johnfilmore]

You forgot one city near me, Louisville, Kentucky, 37% of kentucky lives in Louisville, 00s of French gothic churches, the Fleur de Lis is the official city emblem & old official document stamps are French, as do old limestone buildings have French writing.

After visiting New Orleans, you realise there are many obscure parts of Louisville that look just like New Orleans, the French cathedrals are in older parts of town surrounded by what were French limestone wealthy homes 150 years ago, rehabbed to varying degrees.
Sadly there are no native French left in Louisville.

Across the river from Louisville Kentucky is St Albany Indiana,

As you move across small roads of Indiana you find it divided very starkly between ethnic German Bavarian architecture, homes, with German town & street names,
next to towns with French Gothic cathedrals & French architecture of the town center shops.

Last names in Southern Indiana at least south of Indianapolis, are either German or French.

Indianapolis is its own separate thing, if it had an ethnic culture I never saw it.

Like Louisville people who are culturally completely different from anywhere else in Kentucky, Indianapolis does not share the traits of its surrounding Indiana inhabitants, at least not in the major parts.

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[V___]

As a man from the lower 9 up in New Orleans. The culture is strong here and very much distinct from every other city or state in the U.S. Especially when it comes to our French heritage.

Got much love for home.

[chicagofineart]

I grew up in St. Louis in the 1950's & 1960's. My father's family came from Germany in the late 1840's to farm in Illinois. I always thought our family was probably among the first settlers of an area just East of St.Louis. WRONG. My grandfather informed me our family's farm was part of a Royal French Grant that had already been established by settler over 100 years earlier, before the 1750's. And in grade school we all learned native trappers and French traders had been doing business in the Kaskaskia valley for 100 years before that. Many old families of Missouri and Arkansas will boast privately of their Osage heritage and mixed race background, if you offer enough beers. So my sense of what happened to most of the original French settlers after the Louisiana Purchase is that they melted into the pot of Americana, whatever that means to each person.

[bobwitkowski]

They forgot to mention Wisconsin. I am a descendant of Frenck Canadian from Wisconsin. I thought they where going to talk about my descendants.

[markaxworthy]

The area of Louisiana was "discovered" by the Spanish. The French colony was just established under that name later.

[redswift]

As someone born and raised in Dubuque IA the French influence is still felt here today. Hell the name of the city is after a French settler who set up here.

[alexandremarion]

The picture of Louis 14 represente Louis 15😂

[TetsuShima]

Pretty crazy to think that part of America was at one point napoleonic territory

[alansewell]

I'm writing a book that includes a chapter on the French in the Illinois Country that became part of Britain's expanded Quebec Province in 1774, then came into the United States during the War of the American Revolution. They were localized to a few towns of a few thousand people, so they dissolved in the larger population, but left their French names behind in towns from Joliet to Creve Ceour, St. Louis, Louisville, etc. There is a more recent French Canadian diaspora into the USA Northeast and Midwest from the late 1800s through the Great Depression, and that is where many French names in America come from. They have blended into the fabric of American life and are recognizable only by their French-sounding last names. "Duchon, Gendron, and LaFountain" are some we know.

[Tocktail]

@Knowledgia there is actually 10 million French descent individuals currently residing in the US not 6 million French descent individuals currently residing in the US.

[WallyBurge]

Alabama also had many French connections, Demopolis was established as “the vine and olive colony, in Marengo county, also a French name, and the town of Linden, just south of there was named after the battle of Hoenlinden, a Napoleonic battle.

[Via-Media]

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Mardi Gras
Don’t pronounce the S please
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Great video but hearing that was rather jarring.