Facts of Louisiana

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War against the British caused the exile of us French-Canadians from Ft. Louisbourg and Port Royale using the name of Accadiens. Twenty-three families of approximately 9,000 were forced abord 9 ships after our homes were seiged and burned for not pledging allegiance to English king George. Many of us arrived to la Louisiane and made our name 'cajen'.

Accadiens known as courreur-des-bois were militiamen for the French army and worked the Bourbon kings shipping company titled Companie de la Nouvelle France. After the Louisiana Purchase with outbreak of the War of 1812 courreur-des-bois joined the French gendarmerie and U.S. army so to war the British enemy at the Battle of New Orleans.

The possession of the Louisiana territory went from Bourbon France to Bourbon Spain to Napolean to colonial U.S.A. to Confederacy and back to the U.S.A. It was during the Spanish rule under Texas vice-roy Bernardo de Galvez segundo that la Lousiane became Louisiana. The residence of de Galvez is still at isla-Galvez, today named Galveston island. New Orleans still has the Cabildo government building with Inquisition dungeon built by the Spanish. The official language remained French during Spanish rule.

U.S. senater Jimmy Domenjeaux made U.S. Act 707 titled CODOFIL demanding French language lessons become the required curriculum in U.S. schools.

Louisiana law and other states laws are published by Thomas Westlaw. Also to research the U.S. Law are the publishers Blackham and Blackstone.

The Cajun raccoon caps are called the queu-de-pie. The beanie caps also known as liberty caps are called toques. The 3 corner Paul Revere style hat is called a tri-corne. Revolutionists stuck tri-color plumes in their hats and called them cockades.

The French hunters-trappers-militiamen known as courreur-des-bois wore racoon hats, while at war, the British called them 'coonasses', which sounds similar to the frank war-cry 'conasse' and-so the name is still today used by cajuns to describe themselves.

A hollowed birch canoe is called a pirogue/piroque.

A large 10-man canoe that carries up to 4 tons is called a canôt.

The voyageurs were French taximen who transported fur traders by canoe. A full-paid Accadien voyageur was called a pork-eater.

Accadiens practiced polygamy, at a young age, they took Indian squaws for wives, had children, and moved into the interior of North America. After the children had grown, they abandoned that Indian family and returned to Quebec, where they remarried and had a French family so to continue their bloodline.

The original name for New York City was Toronto with Ft. Ticonderoga.

The Louisiana town of Arnaudville was founded by one of 3 brothers Arnaud who had left the savignard town of Jaussiers near Mont Blanc circa 1820 so to start a silk company in Mexico that used Indian slave labor. One brother could not tolerate the heat, so he moved to Louisiana. The Arnaud family are Jews liberated by the Revolution and are related to Arnold, Albert, Roberts, and Rogers.

Brousseilleaux families are approximately 250 families made by the king in a.d.778 from the family Brousseaux who originate from the northern Italian town of Brescia. Brousseilleaux names include Broussard, Brossard, Breaux, Braud, Brault, LeBreult, de Broglie, Bronte, Brodi, Brasseur, Brouchard, Brouillette, Brossier, Bruno Etc.

The Canary Islands off the west coast of Africa have a native savage blond people who were first captured by the Normans and later placed under the rule of Spain. Their names include Rodrigue and Dominge. Many immigrated from the Canary Islands to early Louisiana.

The blonde Louisiana Senator Mary Landrieu is really a part black creole woman.

​The original name of Maurice was St. Maure, who is not the same saint as St. Thomas Moore. St. Martinville was originally St. Martin, and all the area of Lafayette-Vermilleville was called Grand Pre.

The only difference of Coteaux from Grand Coteaux is a trip down the road because they are the same town.

Ville de Broussard is an area known as Côtes-Géleé.

The town of Mamou is named for a wooly mammoth skeleton that was pulled from its tarpits.

Many of the strange names, such as Bogalusa, Opelousa, and Chatanooga were given by explorers making up funny names and pagan names. They aren't all Indian names.

The big Airbus transport planes named Chinooks that are used by U.N. armies are named for a wind that blows through central Canada into the northern U.S.

The name Accadien has 2 possible origins. Some say it is a Canadian native name for polluck fish, and some say it is taken from the name of Arkadia. There are 2 ancient Arkadias, one is the biblical town near babylon and the other is a stretch of land just south of Corinthe.