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Bien que je ne sois pas le plus légitime a dire cela n’étant pas français de souche, mais pour moi ceux d’entre vous qui vous considérez français sont aussi français que nous, d’ailleurs il serait sûrement opportun (si ça n’est pas déjà le cas) de faciliter l’obtention de visa de tourisme pour les américains francophones. De plus, les territoires francophones des USA font partis des seuls qui me donnent une quelconque envie de visiter ce pays. Je suis sur Instagram un influenceurs de Louisiane francophone, je le trouve très intéressant et je trouve que votre langue (comme tout les créoles dont la base est le français) est magnifique, riche, intéressante et digne d’être connue du plus grand nombre!
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!
this, my friends, exemplifies the consequences of the policies in Canada versus the United States to the parts of the countries that were settled by the French.
@@stevedavenport1202 Being alf Franco American dont mean your a Franco American. Franco American are French Speaking People living in USA and French Speaking Community in USA. If you dont speak french and dont want to learn it, then you are not Franco-Américain.
@@fecteauanthony457 Les Francophone d'Amérique du Nord ont pas trop le choix d'apprendre une deuxième langue qui est l'anglais car ont est entouré d'anglais. Tandis que la majorité des anglophones ne veulent même pas apprendre le français ou même une autre langue et les gouvernements s'efforcent d'effacer le Français par assimilations progressives entk au Canada.
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.
Yes. France did not truly occupy and physically 'own' the land. France had a claim to all that vast territory which was recognized in Europe and by the American Government. Therefore, American settlers could not simply just move in and establish farms. That would have been regarded as an invasion and act of war by American nationals as the French government would see it. The United States Government had to first purchase the "claim" from the French Napoleonic government for a cool 20 million dollars, which was worth far more back then than today. After the U.S. Government purchased the Louisiana territory land claim from France, Americans would soon start to migrate west and then confront the 'real' owners of the land, the shocked and aroused Native American tribes living there who suddenly learned their tribal lands no longer belonged to them. Of course the Indian tribes were going to have something to say about that which in the long run did not turn out well for them.
I understand that channels need sponsors to survive but not at the expense of their audience. Better Help are well known scammers and the fact you've accepted a sponsorship from them mean you either don't do any research on the sponsors you push onto your audience, or you are fully aware of the controversies around better help and just didn't care because you wanted the money. Both of these options are things I do not want to support so I'm out unfortunately. For all the people replying saying "you could have just left without leaving a comment" or "it's peoples own fault if they listen to sponsors from a UA-cam video let them make their money" 1. The comment section is literally for people to respectfully leave their thoughts and opinions on the content they just watched. I have just as much right to leave this comment as you do to reply to my comment. 2. Better help targets the most vulnerable in our society. They actively target people who are mentally unwell and scam them. If you can't see why it's a problem this channel is promoting them to their fans that says a lot about the type of person you are.
shut the hell up history channels need money more than most as youtube fucks them over so much. he probably got more than mosts yearly pay in a few minutes let the man make his money
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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.
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.
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.
The French colonial effort had such little significance in America [the continent] and former French colonies are so poor and insignificant that I can't imagine the French language gaining any traction whatsoever in America or Asia for that matter.
I think the most challenging thing is that the only way a child can get into the French immersion system is by having a fluent French speaker in their home. My grandparents were taught French first and then English, but by the time my dad was born they had already been put down for speaking Cajun French and not wanting to speak it to the children. My dad was the first to have English as his first language. He was drawn from the “Acadiana” region and moved to New Orleans to be with my mom who had the same experience, so they could not teach us the language. My dad’s family still speak Cajun French fluently and I am very big on my children hanging around my cousins who are teaching their children Cajun French. I really like to see them teaching French at the school, but if you don’t have any Cajun French speakers around, the language is not coming back
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.
Did you ever see that documentary they were playing on KET about ten years ago, “St. Joseph’s College: A Triumph of Faith” I believe it is called. It is about a Catholic college and/or institution founded by French Catholic missionaries to what is now central Kentucky. It was a great documentary and like many I saw on KET I can’t find it!
@@pascalplantagenet4802 I don't think that's quite right--Louisville was not founded by American settlers. However, the American revolutionaries depended on the miiltary knowledge of Lafayette and grateful to him for showing them military tactics. George Washington, of course, was a British officer during the 7 Years War so he knew some miitary tactics as well. However the Americans, in general, didn't have that much military experience. I'm Canadian. I was watching a few videos this morning about the American Civil War and the battles fought. You really have to know what you are doing to wage war successfully. In any era, that's true. There's a strategy behind it.
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.
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.
There probably weren't that many settlers and French families anyway to assimilate. The half-breeds (Métis) of the area were happy enough to adapt to speaking English with the new American settlers.
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.
Good to know. I've often wondered how far up the French were able to get before the territory was sold. Whenever I watch anything on Lewis and Clark's exploration, no mention is made of what they already did know before they left St. Louis. There must have been some maps available to them.
@@MrLesonfireforGodThe French owned Canada before the British got there. They came down the St. Lawrence passed through the Great Lakes, came down Lake Michigan, crossed the portage near Chicago that connects to the Illinois River, then came down there to where it meets the Mississippi near St. Louis, then followed the Mississippi to their colony at New Orleans, and took the Missouri River as far west as the Rockies. It was a magnificent empire they had in the heart of North America. They were mostly trappers and traders with the Indians and got along well with them, frequently marrying into their tribes. They came under British Administration after the British won the French and Indian War. Then came into the United States when we wrested what was then known as the "The Illinois Country" from the British. IN 1774, just before the Revolution, the British expanded the Quebec Province down to the Ohio River, so what we call The American Midwest was destined to become French Canada if we hadn't taken possession of it. The other day I asked my friend whose last name is LaFountain how long his French ancestors had been in Michigan. He said they'd been there longer than anyone could trace, going back to the first days of the French moving down the St. Lawrence and crossing into what is now the United States.
@@ChrisCrossClash The American Revolution was triggered by several factors. One of them being that in 1774 the British extended their Quebec Province down to the Ohio River, covering all of what we now call the American Midwest states of Ohio, Michigan, Indiana, Illinois, and Wisconsin. That part of French Canada was incorporated into the United States in 1783. In later years, about half of all people who immigrated into Canada re-emigrated to the United States, continuing to modern times. Including some of my business partners, colleagues, and friends.
@@BarlasofIndus That doesn't negate my point that the Spaniards de Navaez and de Soto separately "discovered" what became Louisiana well over a century before the French first settled there.
What's funny is that the US borrowed the money to purchase the Louisiana Territory from the British Government. The British were at war (or at least hostile) with the French at the time. So, this deal caused the British to accidentally fund Napoleon's Empire.
Haitians are responsible for Napoleon selling the territory which played a major role in transforming America into what it is today. That's something they made sure isn't taught in schools.
There was approximately 100k of french colonists in New France around 1760. 20k in the present day Maritimes and 45k in present day Quebec and Ontario. So that left about 30k in the Louisiana territory with most in the New Orleans area. So that means that the land between present day Louisiana and the Great lakes were basically empty. That left very little French culture to absorb by US expansion.
@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.
Deal was so good that Jefferson accepted it before Congress could even figure out what was happening Jefferson then supposedly felt guilty about his overreach of power for years after, but at least he didn’t pull an Andrew Jackson and “purchase” a territory by force lol Also thank the Haitian revolution for driving down the price to 15 million which is wildly cheap for that much land.
@@BMWE90HQif your idea of honoring the past is suppression of mistakes your not honoring anyone Great people are great because of their human flaws they had to grapple with while archiving remarkable feats
@@BMWE90HQ Oh I wasn’t talking bad on him, that was very in character for Jackson. What Jefferson did was out of character for Jefferson, that’s why he felt guilty. Jackson never felt guilty because conquering land without permission was always his thing.
Also should add that Jefferson was a big proponent of small government. So purchasing the territory through Presidential power without notifying Congress was to him, a huge breach of his political stance and being a libertarian of the era. I guess the deal was just that good or the drinks in Paris got to him
The French, except for Quebec, never settled North America in an aggressive manor like The English did and then the former English colonists, The Americans. The French were only too happy to establish fur trading out posts across the Upper Midwest, but never got serious about moving many people here to establish large vibrant cities. They made a half baked attempt in Detroit, but soon after the war of 1812, that colony was quickly Anglizized by by American settlers. The same holds true for The Louisiana Purchase. With the exception of the Cajuns in the state of Louisiana, the French did not spread out in large numbers across the fruited plain of the midlands. This left The United States wide open for existing Americans and those who emigrated much later in the century who largely were not French, but rather German, Scandinavian, Irish, Italian and Polish. The French let a golden opportunity slip through their hands due to a seemed lack of interest.
@@johanlibert2481 the conquest of Algeria started in 1830, much after all that, and even then France had to use Spaniards and Italians to populate Algeria. The truth is that compared to other Europeans French people never really wanted to leave their country. They had plenty of space and fertile land already, and didn’t face extreme poverty forcing them to find opportunities elsewhere.
I will agree and disagree. For the French government there was no concerted effort at colonization like the English but that didn't stop French traders and explorers for seeking out opportunities in the New World. In addition to Quebec and large swath of central Illinois, longitudinal from where Chicago is today along the Illinois River to just S. of St.Louis that had "mixed race" settlements of natives, French, other Europeans and free Blacks (who usually had to "free" themselves).
I think part of the issue is that the British allowed or encouraged those or various beliefs to settle in the colonies while the French only wanted Catholics very loyal to the crown. That instantly lowered the population interested in moving.
Some errors here : At 3.26, your picture is not of King Louis the XIV (reign 1643 - 1715) but of his great-grandson and successor king Louis the XVth (reign 1715 -1774). Then there was no Napoleon (his first name as an imperator, from december 2d 1804) back to 1800-1803, only Bonaparte, first consul of the French Republic (so no protection of the "crown" for the French colonists). And it was not a steal : France could not realistically defend such a distant colony (accessible only though "La Nouvelle Orléans") with so few colonists. A war would have cost 100 million dollars + casualties ... for the same result. It only could have negociated better the price, but that's it.
I picked on that also. I already dislike sites that use ai voices. ai voices make small but very noticable miss pronounciations. One of my favorites so fars was hearing the number 10,400 said as 10 fourhundreds. I still laught at that
One of the best videos on the subject. As a Canadian who studied how the French language disappeared from the US it is interesting to watch. Just a few notes the large territory of Louisiana was scarcely populated by like you say in the video a population of mixed heritage. The video talks about Quebec but we don't know if it refers to the city or the area. It is important to know for Americans that Canadian provinces as they are know are the creation of the confederation (1867 onward). As for the Spanish control of Louisiana except for the first governor it was well accepted. Now let's be honest except for a few very isolated places and this is terrible or great depending on where you stand but the French language as a native language is basically dead in America of the millions who could speak French decades ago only about 70k remains and the majority are very old.
You mean in the U.S. of A., right? Of course, with the arrival of Haitian migrants, you might find more who are capable of speaking international French as well as Haitian creole. Also, there may be a fair number of Quebecers and Frenchmen and womenand French-speaking Africans emigrating to the U.S. Maintaining the language in their children, though, is the difficulty.
I’ve lived in St. Louis for decades. I can honestly say that you would be hard pressed to even find a French speaking person that lives there anymore. Too much time has passed by and the French population over time was very integrated in the US population so much so that the only things left in St. Louis that are tied to France is the architecture and names of places and streets and that’s pretty much it. Very little if any French culture exists there anymore with the exception of the Mardi Gras celebration.
The French language culture in Massachusetts was dealt a hit with a change in education policy in the 1960s. Franco-American parochial schools were allowed to teach in French. Both of my parents (3rd generation Americans) spoke French before they spoke English and were taught their lessons in French. In the 60s, Mass put an end to the exemption and forced the schools to teach in English. To help their children, many Franco-American households stopped speaking French at home to give their children a leg up when they went to English language schools. My generation is probably the first in Massachusetts to not speak fluent French. We were taught it, but never used it. :(
As you enter the town of Milk River, Alberta Canada you'll see a sign showing the flags of all six groups who've controlled the area around the town at one time or another. These are the Spanish, French, American, Hudson's Bay Company, British and Canadian.
This small area at the southernmost edge of Alberta drains into the Missouri via the Milk River, which of course was the northernmost edge of the Louisiana Territory.
@@MrLesonfireforGod Interesting. My Grandfather had a farm, was a homesteader near Milk River from 1916 to 1920. My sister found among my mother's possessions a poster advertising an auction of all my Grandfather's and Grandmother's farm equipment and household effects in 1920. They were, according to the poster, moving to Manitoba. We always thought that my Grandfather kept farming near Milk River, but this poster causes us to wonder. Was the farm to which my mother returned after she was born in Spokane, Washington in Dec. 1923, not in Milk River, but in Saskatchewan? Her younger brother was born in Saskatchewan in January,1926, so did the family move from Milk River on receiving title to their farm in 1921 or did no one want their farm equipment so they stayed in Milk River? Family mystery? Did the family stay in the Milk River area until 1929 when my Grandfather lost his farm after his crop was hailed out? The family could have been in Saskatchewan in January, 1926 for work when there is no farming to be done really back on the wheat farm.
My grandfather was a German-speaking/English-speaking Canadian from a farm near Wellesley, Ontario and my grandmother was a Norwegian/German/English-speaking American born in Iowa but who was raised in Spokane, Washington. Are the flags of their country of origin flying in Milk River?
Decent video. Some corrections and omissions: the Seven Years' War started in 1755, not 1756. The Acadian / Cajun influence was completely ignored. To the credit of the Spanish, they opened up Louisiana around 1785 to allow expelled Acadians who had been shipped to France in the 1750s to return to the New World in Louisiana. Of course, self-interest was involved as quite a few uprooted Acadians in France couldn't find available farmland to work and were slowly migrating toward the Spanish border. An added note: the marriage record of Vital Guérin, a great----uncle, contains the first recorded instance of the name of Saint Paul, MN.
Beausoleil brought a group from Halifax where they had been imprisoned after the Acadian expulsion. It's believed that the British commander there gave him the money to finance the trip to Louisiana. All the Acadians after the expulsion didn't come from France directly.
South of St Louis there are still small towns with clear ties to French settlement such as Ste Genevieve. Individuals that spoke French fluently lasted until the 1900s and there may be a handful today.
There is so much misinformation in this video that it is hard to correct it. 1) Louisiana wasn’t settled by convicts. TWO of Louisiana’s 25 or so French parishes were settled by debtors from France who were released from debtors prisons to build the population of the colony. The rest were not. 2) The word Creole means native born. It’s not a race or a mixture of races. It means anyone born in the colony. There were people of all races who fit the categorization, as well as Creole horses, Creole sugar and rice. It was all inclusive, like American. It’s not a special race. 3) The Louisiana French did not move to New England. The French there came from Canada. That’s just a bold misstatement I’ll attribute to lack of research. 4) You completely left out the Acadians who were exiled from Nova Scotia (French Acadia) and eventually immigrated to Louisiana. 5) Louisiana is not a land of poor soil. It’s a land of very rich farmland. The state’s early wealth was all agricultural.
Bonjour... you stated that : "Louisiana wasn’t settled by convicts." And that is not what is said in the video... but many convicts were sent there. "The word Creole means native born" that is exactly what is said in the video. "The Louisiana French did not move to New England. The French there came from Canada." True but much much later in the 1850-1880s. "Acadians who were exiled from Nova Scotia.. and eventually immigrated to Louisiana." They did not immigate to Louisiana they were deported the same as jews did not "emigrate" to concentration camps they were deported ... but I see you are well verse in history 😇
There was a lot left out for sure…but I did my ancestry and some of my French family moved to Philadelphia from New Orleans after the purchase…but yea the bulk were from Canada for sure I think he’s just saying some people migrated to the bigger established cities for opportunities still trying to find out why my family did
I know this is probably half joking, but Alaska doesn’t come close to the Louisiana purchase. The US quite literally would have never a superpower without it.
This kind of thing is a long battle. Spanish and Portugal were occupied by the Muslim seven centuries before they got their independence. At the rate thing going, English Canada will be replaced before we get our independence.
There were only a few tens of thousands of French in Louisiana in 1804. They left little real trace outside Louisiana except in some place names. Most of the people claiming French origin in the US are from later migrations.
@@markaxworthy2508 I hope you are not American but whatever's the case you really need to open a history book. "They left little real trace outside Louisiana except in some place names." 4000 places actually outside of the present state of Louisiana.
Why did Nova Scotia show as British when it was originally L’Acadie and settled by the French. After the war forced out by the British. Many settled later in Louisiana.
Its the romans unofficially. The spanish were using old roman gold and salt mine maps. Im guessing when western rome collapsed some of the old territories new of maps and very hastily organized voyages to new world And the celts were most likely mining the salt(possibly gold also) Phoneticians, Egyptians, and greeks left evidence as well
Yeah, the Spanish crown in North America usually only sent Roman Catholic missionaries sponsored by the Papacy. Spain sent just enough people to build a church to preach to the natives then left them to their own devices most of the time. This was one of the main reasons why Spain had such loose controls over their newly acquired territories and this loose control was inherited by the Mexican Empire 1821 to 1823 until what is present day Mexico eventually gained a sense of stability of its territories by post-French rule 1862-1867
technically the Spaniards did not go to North America at the time (not above Florida). the first explorer of north America was Da Verazzano, who was working for the French king Francis I.
@@alainprostbis They did as long as you consider Texas, Nevada, New Mexico, Arizona, California and Washington State to be a part of North America (and BC in Canada for that matter).
Quite complete overview of the subject. ^_^ Let me add that Quebec, known at the time as Lower Canada, only gain the right to officially be French and Catholic in 1791, along reverting to French civil law, through the treaty of Quebec. It was to incite French Canadians to not join the American revolutionaries, but also because there were too numerous already, plus the Scots, both the Loyalist form the 13th colonies and the ones from Scotland proper, which the British authorities hoped would boost the number of English Protestants... instead, they married French Canadians, turned Catholic and adopted French, boosting the resistance. So yeah, Quebec was the Frenchiest place in North America by the time of the Louisiana Purchase, although there were Acadians in the Atlantic provinces and other French speakers in today's Ontario and the Prairies, too.
That would have been present day southern Quebec. The northern part of present day Quebec was under the control of the Hudson Bay Company so it was not French-speaking at all. That's why even Mary Simon, a Quebecer and our Governor-General does not speak French well.
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The "Frenchness" of New Orleans is vastly overstated and misunderstood as it relates to the Louisiana Purchase and in many other ways. New Orleans had been a Spanish colony for the 40 years prior to the Louisiana Purchase. France held it for 19 days in 1803. The majority of the New Orleans population had arrived during the Spanish era and incredibly few were French in origin. There isn't even a single building from the French era that stands today. All colonial buildings were built during the Spanish era. Much of the French influence in New Orleans came more than a decade after the Louisiana Purchase when former residents of Haiti arrived, most having spent at least a decade after the Haitian revolution in Cuba before making way to New Orleans. We have a thin veneer of Frenchness because for some silly reason, people here somehow think that they are somehow more elevated in social status by thinking of themselves as French instead of Spanish, German, Sicilian, Irish and all the other ethnicities that most of the local population originates from. Few people from New Orleans will agree with me unless they are historians. They just don't know better and love their own myths and fairy tales much more than they care about the truth.
I'm guadeloupean (black french) and to me there is a blattant african/haïtian footprint in Louisiana "french"mixed créole culture : voodoo, gombo sauce dish, even mardi gras. I'm living in France and the carnival took place mainly in the french west indies, Dunkerque, Nice and french Guiana. There is no carnival parade in Paris (except carnival tropical to compete with Notting Hill in London, with french west Indian music groups).
You are right. Louisiana became French again in 1800 but Spain had to keep ruling awaiting a French governor who arrived less than 6 months before the US purchase to finalize the transfer of power. They rose the French flag and 19 days later lowered it to rise the US flag.
Nobody lived in Louisiana, New France, and Acadia. In 1756 at the start of the Seven Years war, known as the last French and Indian war in North America, there were 2.5 MILLION English speaking people in the 13 colonies, there were 50,000 French speaking people in all of Louisiana, New France and Acadia combined. The funny thing is, due to migration to man the textile mills of New England, more French Canadians live in the USA than anywhere else. You can see trucks that have "Levesque and Sons" on the side instead of "Levesque et fils."
Do you know of the quote by Canadian politician Henri Bourassa from the early 1900's? If the French had won in 1763, Napoleon would have later sold Quebec to Jefferson along with Louisiana and there would be no French in North America today. In other words, the Quebec Separatists can only justify their position if they completely ignore the fact that the French didn't want them and their English oppressors were the only ones to give them some amount of existence as a people. Things could have been better I'm sure, but Quebecers should be thankful not rebellious.
@@MrLesonfireforGod I heard something similar before. It's fictitious history. Better to stick to facts and to recall the fights for our rights in the 70s.
@@gotigilles1 Sorry but truth is truth. The Quebec Separatists are a bunch of whiners. Anyway, after Stephen Harper declared them a distinct society within a united Canada they've gotten everything they wanted with Rene Leveque's "Sovereignty Association" idea from the first independence referendum of 1980. We give them diplomatic representation abroad and a military to protect them, they get to run everything they want within their own province.
Thomas Jefferson did not send people to France to negotiate the Louisiana Purchase. Instead, it was a surprise to the delegation when the French offered to sell it to the U.S. In reality, the deal was negotiated by Robert Livingston, the U.S. Minister to France, along with James Monroe and William Eaton. They had initially been instructed to seek only the reopening of the Mississippi River to American trade, but the French Foreign Minister Charles Maurice de Talleyrand offered to sell the entire Louisiana territory to the U.S. for $15 million. This unexpected offer led to the Louisiana Purchase, which doubled the size of the United States.
The French had obviously not been in the area officially since 1760 or so except for that 19 days. There were French-speaking traders on the rivers, but they were not protected by an official French force, right?
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The Louisiana Territory Claim would be more accurate name rather than the Louisiana Purchase because much of the land belong to the American tribes. United States then use that claim as a justification for displacing the First Nation.
Why the New Spain or the french Caribbean colonies was not an option for this settlers? Haithi was in revolt, but Guiana, and other minor french antilles not.
it could be that the economies of the other colonies were different. guiana for example i think was mainly a cash-crop based plantation colony, so unless you're willing to buy some slaves and start a sugarcane farm, there isnt much reason to move there
After the Haitian revolt, quite a few French went over to neighboring Cuba. Specifically, eastern Cuba where they restarted anew in the tobacco plantation industry.
What's really annoying is that I live in the US and despite living so much closer to Quebec City than Mexico City, so many signs are in English and Spanish, but not French, and there are a dozen Spanish Radio stations but not a single French one. French was banned for a century, while a whole month was dedicated for Spanish speakers. But yeah, I like to imagine you have Francophone Canada, Anglophone US, and Hispanophone Mexico.
A divided nation is not as powerful. Also Americans don't speak proper English either (just ask people in England 😄), they speak "globish" : an (over) simplified grammar-less version of English that anyone can learn in under a month.
@@GolemDude I would say multi-cultural and multi-lingual is the way to go. Spanish is more likely to be studied in Amercian schools rather than French, right? Even in New England?
The French migrated to the new world in small numbers. Unlike the French the Spanish and English saw moving to the new world as an opportunity for the common man to acquire wealth and riches that the new world had to offer.
Demography is the key to understand most events in History and people don’t realize it. If France lost continental North America it’s not because they “didn’t care” or “didn’t fight”, but simply because the 20,000 settlers of New France were insignificant compared to the 20 million souls living in the British American colonies.
We are still here! My paternal family immigrated to New Orleans from Alsace Lorraine France in 1838, but an older branch of the same family that immigrated to New Orleans in 1789 is mostly located in Ohio
@@dinkster1729 I don’t…I know that one of my cousins speaks French, but 1838 is long before she was born, and her dad and my dad were brothers, so I know she didn’t learn French through the family. One can assume she learned it in school
@@johnhochenedel5765 I'm the only Goneau who speaks French. My youngest sister understands a bit of French that she picked up through osmosis because her 2 step-children and their spouses and their kids speak French. She also lives in Ottawa so is in a bilingual environment a fair bit. The government of Canada through the provinces was making a real effort in the late 1970s to help non-Francophones learn French. I took full advantage of the opportunity. I grew up in northern Ontario where 50% of the population was Francophone so I have no problem understanding the French fact of Canada.
@@johnhochenedel5765 A girl I knew in Quebec City, an American studying French for the summer was surprised that the dentist she had to see about a tooth didn't speak English because "he's been to university". I laughed to myself and said to her, "He's been to a Francophone university." I guess the idea that professionals in Quebec do train in French had never occurred to her.
I do genealogy research and found stuff about one of my French ancestors who had to prove he owned the land that he owned in St. Louis after the Louisiana Purchase or forfeit his land.
Well the ones in SE MI are still here haha. My great grandpa and his parents and grand parents spoke French. My Great grandpa was actually the first Frenchman in our family tree (and his siblings) to be raised with English as the first language vs French. Now my Millennial Ass only knows curse words and kindergarten French but my dads family is Mexican and I can pop off haha 🤣
I know it's not part of the storyline of the Louisiana Purchase but I gotta say what happened to Florida during the leadup period and after is very confusing. It was given to the British in 1763ish. It becomes part of America after 1776, I presume. Then Spain gets it back at somepoint after ... bewildering to me.
This is a special video for all the Americans who think the only commun point in our history is WW2 and D Day in Normandy... America would not exist without the French, the statue of liberty is a gift from France and yes, a large part of the country was the property of France in the past... So France is not a randum country that got the great idea to surrender during WW2, it's way more than that (plus France still own the victory record in history).
Technically the US is an "idea". It was supposed to be the pinnacle of Enlightenement principles, the realization of the Founding Fathers' ideal place on Earth. But today, it's more a place of corruption, centralized government and greed.
What is ironic in this trade of Louisiana between France and U.S., which Thomas Jefferson knew British would soon or late declare war to U.S. for Louisiana territory, this is a bank from England who lend the money to Americans to permit them to pay to France...Barings Bank
For a time, there was British North America after the conquest of what is now Nova Scotia including Cape Breton Island, Prince Edward Island, New Brunswick, Quebec which were colonized by the French, and Newfoundland and Labrador except for the French Treaty Shore. These British-held colonies did not rebel against the British crown. That is true. When did the term "13 Colonies" become commonplace?
Now do a video of the Hispano settlers in USA west (CA, AZ, UT, NM, CO and TX). We have a different culture than Mexico. I’m proud to be from Southern Colorado and Northern New Mexico.
What happened is that the United States purchased France's "CLAIM" to the Louisiana Territory. The French did not actually occupy the land itself. But France's Louisiana claim was internationally recognized in Europe, and by the United States Government, which meant American citizens were not at liberty to simply move in and claim lands for their farms. France would have regarded that as a foreign invasion of its lands. The U.S. would have to lay claim to all that land first and that meant purchasing France's land claim. It's a long story of how France came to claim all that vast territory because in history, Great Britain forced France out of North America after a series of victories in the Seven Years War, known in North America as the French and Indian Wars. Left out of the story were the large number of Native American tribes occupying the Louisiana Territory, as their ancestors had for hundreds of years. They had no idea the lands under their feet were being claimed and bought and sold between Europeans and former Europeans. How many Native Americans lived and died in the Louisiana Territory before Americans finally moved west to claim the territory purchased from France, without even knowing their lands no longer belonged to them? Naturally in the run of history many would put up a fierce, if ultimately futile resistance.
The problem with that story is that the French did not actually own the land that they sold to the US. But that didn't stop them from doing it anyway. And considering that the US eliminated most of the native peoples who were there first anyway (Manifest Destiny), they could have got the land without giving the French anything.
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We’re still here… south of I-10 in Louisiana
Yeah, but you're American now and you don't speak French anymore.
@@manyulgarprsch- because they outlawed it and beat our parents for speaking it! A very sore subject amongst us Cajuns! 😡
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Bien que je ne sois pas le plus légitime a dire cela n’étant pas français de souche, mais pour moi ceux d’entre vous qui vous considérez français sont aussi français que nous, d’ailleurs il serait sûrement opportun (si ça n’est pas déjà le cas) de faciliter l’obtention de visa de tourisme pour les américains francophones. De plus, les territoires francophones des USA font partis des seuls qui me donnent une quelconque envie de visiter ce pays. Je suis sur Instagram un influenceurs de Louisiane francophone, je le trouve très intéressant et je trouve que votre langue (comme tout les créoles dont la base est le français) est magnifique, riche, intéressante et digne d’être connue du plus grand nombre!
@@manyulgarprsch I speak Cajun French couyon
My ancestors worked as translators and traders, in the Ohio and upper Mississippi valleys.
Hey
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!
this, my friends, exemplifies the consequences of the policies in Canada versus the United States to the parts of the countries that were settled by the French.
. I am 50% Franco American..have no desire to learn French.
J'espère au moins que tu connaisses une deuxième langue. Tout le monde rit de l'Amérique du Nord parce qu'il ne connaît qu'une langue.
@@stevedavenport1202 Being alf Franco American dont mean your a Franco American. Franco American are French Speaking People living in USA and French Speaking Community in USA. If you dont speak french and dont want to learn it, then you are not Franco-Américain.
@@fecteauanthony457 Les Francophone d'Amérique du Nord ont pas trop le choix d'apprendre une deuxième langue qui est l'anglais car ont est entouré d'anglais. Tandis que la majorité des anglophones ne veulent même pas apprendre le français ou même une autre langue et les gouvernements s'efforcent d'effacer le Français par assimilations progressives entk au Canada.
On est toujours icitte (au Minnesota)!
and Louisiana
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.
Yes. The French presence was much larger in Canada compared to the US
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Yes. France did not truly occupy and physically 'own' the land. France had a claim to all that vast territory which was recognized in Europe and by the American Government. Therefore, American settlers could not simply just move in and establish farms. That would have been regarded as an invasion and act of war by American nationals as the French government would see it. The United States Government had to first purchase the "claim" from the French Napoleonic government for a cool 20 million dollars, which was worth far more back then than today.
After the U.S. Government purchased the Louisiana territory land claim from France, Americans would soon start to migrate west and then confront the 'real' owners of the land, the shocked and aroused Native American tribes living there who suddenly learned their tribal lands no longer belonged to them. Of course the Indian tribes were going to have something to say about that which in the long run did not turn out well for them.
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I'm sure their families are still there, assimilated and American same as the next American who may have another type of background,
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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.
I got to visit the French Embassy in DC when I was stationed there. It was very nice, and they were very generous with their food 😄
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.
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.
The French colonial effort had such little significance in America [the continent] and former French colonies are so poor and insignificant that I can't imagine the French language gaining any traction whatsoever in America or Asia for that matter.
I think the most challenging thing is that the only way a child can get into the French immersion system is by having a fluent French speaker in their home. My grandparents were taught French first and then English, but by the time my dad was born they had already been put down for speaking Cajun French and not wanting to speak it to the children. My dad was the first to have English as his first language. He was drawn from the “Acadiana” region and moved to New Orleans to be with my mom who had the same experience, so they could not teach us the language. My dad’s family still speak Cajun French fluently and I am very big on my children hanging around my cousins who are teaching their children Cajun French.
I really like to see them teaching French at the school, but if you don’t have any Cajun French speakers around, the language is not coming back
@@ThisIsMyUA-camName1 I have actually met Cajun French speakers from Louisiana.
@@stevedavenport1202 I personally know a lot of Cajun speakers that are Cajun French. Unfortunately it’s not enough to make a great difference
@@Electra-xm7lu alors il faut continuer plutôt que abandonné
On est toujours ici et on va rester ici..
You'll be outbred
Tu as raison mon gars, vive les expats français, 😏
@@fatphobicandproud9003 ?
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.
Did you ever see that documentary they were playing on KET about ten years ago, “St. Joseph’s College: A Triumph of Faith” I believe it is called. It is about a Catholic college and/or institution founded by French Catholic missionaries to what is now central Kentucky. It was a great documentary and like many I saw on KET I can’t find it!
*New Albany, Indiana
But Louisville was founded by American settlers the French influence was to thanks France for the American revolution 😛
@@sammexp why
@@pascalplantagenet4802 I don't think that's quite right--Louisville was not founded by American settlers. However, the American revolutionaries depended on the miiltary knowledge of Lafayette and grateful to him for showing them military tactics. George Washington, of course, was a British officer during the 7 Years War so he knew some miitary tactics as well. However the Americans, in general, didn't have that much military experience. I'm Canadian. I was watching a few videos this morning about the American Civil War and the battles fought. You really have to know what you are doing to wage war successfully. In any era, that's true. There's a strategy behind it.
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.
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My first thought is Des Moines.
Cheers from Paris cousin :)
Bâton-Rouge (red stick) though I don' think these residues of the french language in North America are a good thing.
@@jasc4364 in what way?
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.
There probably weren't that many settlers and French families anyway to assimilate. The half-breeds (Métis) of the area were happy enough to adapt to speaking English with the new American settlers.
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.
Good to know. I've often wondered how far up the French were able to get before the territory was sold. Whenever I watch anything on Lewis and Clark's exploration, no mention is made of what they already did know before they left St. Louis. There must have been some maps available to them.
@@MrLesonfireforGodThe French owned Canada before the British got there. They came down the St. Lawrence passed through the Great Lakes, came down Lake Michigan, crossed the portage near Chicago that connects to the Illinois River, then came down there to where it meets the Mississippi near St. Louis, then followed the Mississippi to their colony at New Orleans, and took the Missouri River as far west as the Rockies. It was a magnificent empire they had in the heart of North America. They were mostly trappers and traders with the Indians and got along well with them, frequently marrying into their tribes. They came under British Administration after the British won the French and Indian War. Then came into the United States when we wrested what was then known as the "The Illinois Country" from the British. IN 1774, just before the Revolution, the British expanded the Quebec Province down to the Ohio River, so what we call The American Midwest was destined to become French Canada if we hadn't taken possession of it.
The other day I asked my friend whose last name is LaFountain how long his French ancestors had been in Michigan. He said they'd been there longer than anyone could trace, going back to the first days of the French moving down the St. Lawrence and crossing into what is now the United States.
I've read a couple of interesting books tracing the French centered around Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin as well. Thanks for commenting.
@@alansewell7810 You tried getting Canada as well didn't you? how many times did you fail to take it again?
@@ChrisCrossClash The American Revolution was triggered by several factors. One of them being that in 1774 the British extended their Quebec Province down to the Ohio River, covering all of what we now call the American Midwest states of Ohio, Michigan, Indiana, Illinois, and Wisconsin. That part of French Canada was incorporated into the United States in 1783. In later years, about half of all people who immigrated into Canada re-emigrated to the United States, continuing to modern times. Including some of my business partners, colleagues, and friends.
The area of Louisiana was "discovered" by the Spanish. The French colony was just established under that name later.
It was just scouted by them first as non-americans
@@BarlasofIndus That doesn't negate my point that the Spaniards de Navaez and de Soto separately "discovered" what became Louisiana well over a century before the French first settled there.
@@markaxworthy2508 I'm pretty sure it was already there before they came:)
@@dagfinissocool That was why I wrote "discovered" in parentheses.
@@markaxworthy2508 I know.. sorry I just had to get my joke in:)
They forgot to mention Wisconsin. I am a descendant of Frenck Canadian from Wisconsin. I thought they where going to talk about my descendants.
Pretty crazy to think that part of America was at one point napoleonic territory
Napoleon was a g
What's funny is that the US borrowed the money to purchase the Louisiana Territory from the British Government. The British were at war (or at least hostile) with the French at the time.
So, this deal caused the British to accidentally fund Napoleon's Empire.
Haitians are responsible for Napoleon selling the territory which played a major role in transforming America into what it is today. That's something they made sure isn't taught in schools.
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Everywhere was at one point Napoleonic territory...
Hello from New Madrid. One of my great-grandmothers was a French North American.
Where is New Madrid?
Very informative. Thank you and God bless you.
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Mardi Gras
Don’t pronounce the S please
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Great video but hearing that was rather jarring.
More like "graw" lol.
There was approximately 100k of french colonists in New France around 1760.
20k in the present day Maritimes and 45k in present day Quebec and Ontario.
So that left about 30k in the Louisiana territory with most in the New Orleans area.
So that means that the land between present day Louisiana and the Great lakes were basically empty.
That left very little French culture to absorb by US expansion.
@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.
Papaneau and Beaverville and L'Erab are towns in Iriquois County Illinois that had French speakers until the late 1900's, and maybe still have some.
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@@KamBar2020no nazism please…
Americans..Don't ask too much.. 😉
Some can't pin their own country on a map..
USA really lucked out with this and the Alaska purchase
So did Russia. Japan would have taken it away from them.
The Alaska purchase must be the best deal ever like it has oil and gold what more do you want?
@@RootGroves-hl8ktIt had Russians, too, did it not?
I never knew Spain held the Louisiana territory.
I love learning new things.
Exactly
Deal was so good that Jefferson accepted it before Congress could even figure out what was happening
Jefferson then supposedly felt guilty about his overreach of power for years after, but at least he didn’t pull an Andrew Jackson and “purchase” a territory by force lol
Also thank the Haitian revolution for driving down the price to 15 million which is wildly cheap for that much land.
Don’t talk bad about Jackson. He’s one of our greats!
@@BMWE90HQif your idea of honoring the past is suppression of mistakes your not honoring anyone
Great people are great because of their human flaws they had to grapple with while archiving remarkable feats
@@BMWE90HQ Oh I wasn’t talking bad on him, that was very in character for Jackson. What Jefferson did was out of character for Jefferson, that’s why he felt guilty. Jackson never felt guilty because conquering land without permission was always his thing.
Also should add that Jefferson was a big proponent of small government. So purchasing the territory through Presidential power without notifying Congress was to him, a huge breach of his political stance and being a libertarian of the era.
I guess the deal was just that good or the drinks in Paris got to him
Yes the haitian revolution and the napoleon war make them sell low
The French, except for Quebec, never settled North America in an aggressive manor like The English did and then the former English colonists, The Americans. The French were only too happy to establish fur trading out posts across the Upper Midwest, but never got serious about moving many people here to establish large vibrant cities. They made a half baked attempt in Detroit, but soon after the war of 1812, that colony was quickly Anglizized by by American settlers. The same holds true for The Louisiana Purchase. With the exception of the Cajuns in the state of Louisiana, the French did not spread out in large numbers across the fruited plain of the midlands. This left The United States wide open for existing Americans and those who emigrated much later in the century who largely were not French, but rather German, Scandinavian, Irish, Italian and Polish. The French let a golden opportunity slip through their hands due to a seemed lack of interest.
They liked Algeria i guess
@@johanlibert2481 the conquest of Algeria started in 1830, much after all that, and even then France had to use Spaniards and Italians to populate Algeria. The truth is that compared to other Europeans French people never really wanted to leave their country. They had plenty of space and fertile land already, and didn’t face extreme poverty forcing them to find opportunities elsewhere.
I will agree and disagree. For the French government there was no concerted effort at colonization like the English but that didn't stop French traders and explorers for seeking out opportunities in the New World. In addition to Quebec and large swath of central Illinois, longitudinal from where Chicago is today along the Illinois River to just S. of St.Louis that had "mixed race" settlements of natives, French, other Europeans and free Blacks (who usually had to "free" themselves).
@@sans_hw187 Yep they just wanted their resources & people ( slaves) for themselves !
I think part of the issue is that the British allowed or encouraged those or various beliefs to settle in the colonies while the French only wanted Catholics very loyal to the crown. That instantly lowered the population interested in moving.
Some errors here : At 3.26, your picture is not of King Louis the XIV (reign 1643 - 1715) but of his great-grandson and successor king Louis the XVth (reign 1715 -1774). Then there was no Napoleon (his first name as an imperator, from december 2d 1804) back to 1800-1803, only Bonaparte, first consul of the French Republic (so no protection of the "crown" for the French colonists). And it was not a steal : France could not realistically defend such a distant colony (accessible only though "La Nouvelle Orléans") with so few colonists. A war would have cost 100 million dollars + casualties ... for the same result. It only could have negociated better the price, but that's it.
I appreciate French-Cajun Americans.
They introduced Mardi Gras, Rum, and Cajun food recipes to America.
Red Rum ?
Great video but you don’t pronounce the S at the end of Gras . Just Gra . I’m from Louisiana.
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I picked on that also. I already dislike sites that use ai voices. ai voices make small but very noticable miss pronounciations. One of my favorites so fars was hearing the number 10,400 said as 10 fourhundreds. I still laught at that
I cringed.
I'm from England and even I knew that.
Yes, that's because most French words come from Latin words which used to have an ending voyel, that was dropped.
One of the best videos on the subject. As a Canadian who studied how the French language disappeared from the US it is interesting to watch. Just a few notes the large territory of Louisiana was scarcely populated by like you say in the video a population of mixed heritage. The video talks about Quebec but we don't know if it refers to the city or the area. It is important to know for Americans that Canadian provinces as they are know are the creation of the confederation (1867 onward). As for the Spanish control of Louisiana except for the first governor it was well accepted. Now let's be honest except for a few very isolated places and this is terrible or great depending on where you stand but the French language as a native language is basically dead in America of the millions who could speak French decades ago only about 70k remains and the majority are very old.
You mean in the U.S. of A., right? Of course, with the arrival of Haitian migrants, you might find more who are capable of speaking international French as well as Haitian creole. Also, there may be a fair number of Quebecers and Frenchmen and womenand French-speaking Africans emigrating to the U.S. Maintaining the language in their children, though, is the difficulty.
I’ve lived in St. Louis for decades. I can honestly say that you would be hard pressed to even find a French speaking person that lives there anymore. Too much time has passed by and the French population over time was very integrated in the US population so much so that the only things left in St. Louis that are tied to France is the architecture and names of places and streets and that’s pretty much it. Very little if any French culture exists there anymore with the exception of the Mardi Gras celebration.
Not surprising given that French culture is going extinct in France as well.
@@tiam303 Really then how come it receives 85 million tourist a year more than any country on the planet.
The French language culture in Massachusetts was dealt a hit with a change in education policy in the 1960s. Franco-American parochial schools were allowed to teach in French. Both of my parents (3rd generation Americans) spoke French before they spoke English and were taught their lessons in French. In the 60s, Mass put an end to the exemption and forced the schools to teach in English. To help their children, many Franco-American households stopped speaking French at home to give their children a leg up when they went to English language schools. My generation is probably the first in Massachusetts to not speak fluent French. We were taught it, but never used it. :(
I have seen some people from St-Genevieve near St Louis that spoke an understandable french. But qe are talking of about 4 people lol
@@guyl9456 The same reason millions of tourists go to Greece and Egypt each year: see the remains of a once glorious civilization.
The fact that St. Louis is on the wrong side of the river bugs me.
Wrong king image also
As you enter the town of Milk River, Alberta Canada you'll see a sign showing the flags of all six groups who've controlled the area around the town at one time or another. These are the Spanish, French, American, Hudson's Bay Company, British and Canadian.
This small area at the southernmost edge of Alberta drains into the Missouri via the Milk River, which of course was the northernmost edge of the Louisiana Territory.
@@MrLesonfireforGod Interesting. My Grandfather had a farm, was a homesteader near Milk River from 1916 to 1920. My sister found among my mother's possessions a poster advertising an auction of all my Grandfather's and Grandmother's farm equipment and household effects in 1920. They were, according to the poster, moving to Manitoba. We always thought that my Grandfather kept farming near Milk River, but this poster causes us to wonder. Was the farm to which my mother returned after she was born in Spokane, Washington in Dec. 1923, not in Milk River, but in Saskatchewan? Her younger brother was born in Saskatchewan in January,1926, so did the family move from Milk River on receiving title to their farm in 1921 or did no one want their farm equipment so they stayed in Milk River? Family mystery? Did the family stay in the Milk River area until 1929 when my Grandfather lost his farm after his crop was hailed out? The family could have been in Saskatchewan in January, 1926 for work when there is no farming to be done really back on the wheat farm.
My grandfather was a German-speaking/English-speaking Canadian from a farm near Wellesley, Ontario and my grandmother was a Norwegian/German/English-speaking American born in Iowa but who was raised in Spokane, Washington. Are the flags of their country of origin flying in Milk River?
@@dinkster1729 If I remember correctly it's Britain, The Hudson's Bay Company, Spain, France, Canada and the US.
Colonel Vigo was an Italian who commanded a fort under French service. He helped with. Lewis and Clark expedition
Decent video. Some corrections and omissions: the Seven Years' War started in 1755, not 1756. The Acadian / Cajun influence was completely ignored. To the credit of the Spanish, they opened up Louisiana around 1785 to allow expelled Acadians who had been shipped to France in the 1750s to return to the New World in Louisiana. Of course, self-interest was involved as quite a few uprooted Acadians in France couldn't find available farmland to work and were slowly migrating toward the Spanish border. An added note: the marriage record of Vital Guérin, a great----uncle, contains the first recorded instance of the name of Saint Paul, MN.
Beausoleil brought a group from Halifax where they had been imprisoned after the Acadian expulsion. It's believed that the British commander there gave him the money to finance the trip to Louisiana. All the Acadians after the expulsion didn't come from France directly.
Can you make another video about the Spanish after the Florida Purchase?
South of St Louis there are still small towns with clear ties to French settlement such as Ste Genevieve. Individuals that spoke French fluently lasted until the 1900s and there may be a handful today.
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It is fun to go up and down the Mississippi River and visit towns on either side of the river. Gives you an idea of the differences.
There is so much misinformation in this video that it is hard to correct it.
1) Louisiana wasn’t settled by convicts. TWO of Louisiana’s 25 or so French parishes were settled by debtors from France who were released from debtors prisons to build the population of the colony. The rest were not.
2) The word Creole means native born. It’s not a race or a mixture of races. It means anyone born in the colony. There were people of all races who fit the categorization, as well as Creole horses, Creole sugar and rice. It was all inclusive, like American. It’s not a special race.
3) The Louisiana French did not move to New England. The French there came from Canada. That’s just a bold misstatement I’ll attribute to lack of research.
4) You completely left out the Acadians who were exiled from Nova Scotia (French Acadia) and eventually immigrated to Louisiana.
5) Louisiana is not a land of poor soil. It’s a land of very rich farmland. The state’s early wealth was all agricultural.
Bonjour... you stated that : "Louisiana wasn’t settled by convicts." And that is not what is said in the video... but many convicts were sent there. "The word Creole means native born" that is exactly what is said in the video. "The Louisiana French did not move to New England. The French there came from Canada." True but much much later in the 1850-1880s. "Acadians who were exiled from Nova Scotia.. and eventually immigrated to Louisiana." They did not immigate to Louisiana they were deported the same as jews did not "emigrate" to concentration camps they were deported ... but I see you are well verse in history 😇
There was a lot left out for sure…but I did my ancestry and some of my French family moved to Philadelphia from New Orleans after the purchase…but yea the bulk were from Canada for sure I think he’s just saying some people migrated to the bigger established cities for opportunities still trying to find out why my family did
Plus St. Louis wasn't founded on the *East* side of the Mississippi. That was a terrible bit of mapping.
For us french speaker in canada creole is a black language from haiti
Which is a mixh of french and indigenous languages
Very interesting. But.. did I miss the part about the Acadians deportation?
The first European to see the Mississippi River was Alonso Álvarez de Pineda in 1519 (not by the French in 1682 as the video suggests).
Right! De La Salle came down from the north so he followed the Mississippi River from near its source down to present day Louisiana.
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I know this is probably half joking, but Alaska doesn’t come close to the Louisiana purchase. The US quite literally would have never a superpower without it.
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60 years later.
@@stormsurge1850 can always tell who didn't watch the entire video.
As a Québecer, I could say that we have more in common with the south of the U.S than the rest of Canada. Culturally and Historically
So how's that independance going ?
This kind of thing is a long battle. Spanish and Portugal were occupied by the Muslim seven centuries before they got their independence. At the rate thing going, English Canada will be replaced before we get our independence.
@@goofygrandlouis6296 Quebec now wants to join Louisiana?
There were only a few tens of thousands of French in Louisiana in 1804. They left little real trace outside Louisiana except in some place names. Most of the people claiming French origin in the US are from later migrations.
Arcadia
Really....
@@guyl9456 Really!
@@markaxworthy2508 I hope you are not American but whatever's the case you really need to open a history book. "They left little real trace outside Louisiana except in some place names." 4000 places actually outside of the present state of Louisiana.
@@guyl9456 Like I said, ""They left little real trace outside Louisiana except in some place names." Thank you for reaffirming my point.
Why did Nova Scotia show as British when it was originally L’Acadie and settled by the French. After the war forced out by the British. Many settled later in Louisiana.
Yep, one of the first modern genocide.
Why would you put an ad just suddenly like that. I didn't continue watching the video
Technically, the Spanish were the first Europeans to set foot there in the early 1500s. However, they didn't settle it.
Its the romans unofficially. The spanish were using old roman gold and salt mine maps.
Im guessing when western rome collapsed some of the old territories new of maps and very hastily organized voyages to new world
And the celts were most likely mining the salt(possibly gold also)
Phoneticians, Egyptians, and greeks left evidence as well
Yeah, the Spanish crown in North America usually only sent Roman Catholic missionaries sponsored by the Papacy. Spain sent just enough people to build a church to preach to the natives then left them to their own devices most of the time. This was one of the main reasons why Spain had such loose controls over their newly acquired territories and this loose control was inherited by the Mexican Empire 1821 to 1823 until what is present day Mexico eventually gained a sense of stability of its territories by post-French rule 1862-1867
technically the Spaniards did not go to North America at the time (not above Florida). the first explorer of north America was Da Verazzano, who was working for the French king Francis I.
@@alainprostbis They did as long as you consider Texas, Nevada, New Mexico, Arizona, California and Washington State to be a part of North America (and BC in Canada for that matter).
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Quite complete overview of the subject. ^_^
Let me add that Quebec, known at the time as Lower Canada, only gain the right to officially be French and Catholic in 1791, along reverting to French civil law, through the treaty of Quebec. It was to incite French Canadians to not join the American revolutionaries, but also because there were too numerous already, plus the Scots, both the Loyalist form the 13th colonies and the ones from Scotland proper, which the British authorities hoped would boost the number of English Protestants... instead, they married French Canadians, turned Catholic and adopted French, boosting the resistance.
So yeah, Quebec was the Frenchiest place in North America by the time of the Louisiana Purchase, although there were Acadians in the Atlantic provinces and other French speakers in today's Ontario and the Prairies, too.
That would have been present day southern Quebec. The northern part of present day Quebec was under the control of the Hudson Bay Company so it was not French-speaking at all. That's why even Mary Simon, a Quebecer and our Governor-General does not speak French well.
A lot of commercials. Also I have read the diaries of Lewis and Clark. Great stuff.
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You forgot to mention Alabama, which was a part of the French colony.
The "Frenchness" of New Orleans is vastly overstated and misunderstood as it relates to the Louisiana Purchase and in many other ways. New Orleans had been a Spanish colony for the 40 years prior to the Louisiana Purchase. France held it for 19 days in 1803. The majority of the New Orleans population had arrived during the Spanish era and incredibly few were French in origin. There isn't even a single building from the French era that stands today. All colonial buildings were built during the Spanish era. Much of the French influence in New Orleans came more than a decade after the Louisiana Purchase when former residents of Haiti arrived, most having spent at least a decade after the Haitian revolution in Cuba before making way to New Orleans. We have a thin veneer of Frenchness because for some silly reason, people here somehow think that they are somehow more elevated in social status by thinking of themselves as French instead of Spanish, German, Sicilian, Irish and all the other ethnicities that most of the local population originates from. Few people from New Orleans will agree with me unless they are historians. They just don't know better and love their own myths and fairy tales much more than they care about the truth.
I'm guadeloupean (black french) and to me there is a blattant african/haïtian footprint in Louisiana "french"mixed créole culture : voodoo, gombo sauce dish, even mardi gras.
I'm living in France and the carnival took place mainly in the french west indies, Dunkerque, Nice and french Guiana.
There is no carnival parade in Paris (except carnival tropical to compete with Notting Hill in London, with french west Indian music groups).
You are right. Louisiana became French again in 1800 but Spain had to keep ruling awaiting a French governor who arrived less than 6 months before the US purchase to finalize the transfer of power. They rose the French flag and 19 days later lowered it to rise the US flag.
Nobody lived in Louisiana, New France, and Acadia. In 1756 at the start of the Seven Years war, known as the last French and Indian war in North America, there were 2.5 MILLION English speaking people in the 13 colonies, there were 50,000 French speaking people in all of Louisiana, New France and Acadia combined. The funny thing is, due to migration to man the textile mills of New England, more French Canadians live in the USA than anywhere else. You can see trucks that have "Levesque and Sons" on the side instead of "Levesque et fils."
They were targeted, discriminated, mocked, forced to assimilation. The same thing happened in Canada.
Do you know of the quote by Canadian politician Henri Bourassa from the early 1900's? If the French had won in 1763, Napoleon would have later sold Quebec to Jefferson along with Louisiana and there would be no French in North America today. In other words, the Quebec Separatists can only justify their position if they completely ignore the fact that the French didn't want them and their English oppressors were the only ones to give them some amount of existence as a people. Things could have been better I'm sure, but Quebecers should be thankful not rebellious.
@@MrLesonfireforGod I heard something similar before. It's fictitious history. Better to stick to facts and to recall the fights for our rights in the 70s.
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@@gotigilles1 Sorry but truth is truth. The Quebec Separatists are a bunch of whiners. Anyway, after Stephen Harper declared them a distinct society within a united Canada they've gotten everything they wanted with Rene Leveque's "Sovereignty Association" idea from the first independence referendum of 1980. We give them diplomatic representation abroad and a military to protect them, they get to run everything they want within their own province.
Thomas Jefferson did not send people to France to negotiate the Louisiana Purchase. Instead, it was a surprise to the delegation when the French offered to sell it to the U.S. In reality, the deal was negotiated by Robert Livingston, the U.S. Minister to France, along with James Monroe and William Eaton. They had initially been instructed to seek only the reopening of the Mississippi River to American trade, but the French Foreign Minister Charles Maurice de Talleyrand offered to sell the entire Louisiana territory to the U.S. for $15 million. This unexpected offer led to the Louisiana Purchase, which doubled the size of the United States.
The French had obviously not been in the area officially since 1760 or so except for that 19 days. There were French-speaking traders on the rivers, but they were not protected by an official French force, right?
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Were there also French settlers in Louisville, Kentucky?
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The Louisiana Territory Claim would be more accurate name rather than the Louisiana Purchase because much of the land belong to the American tribes. United States then use that claim as a justification for displacing the First Nation.
Why the New Spain or the french Caribbean colonies was not an option for this settlers? Haithi was in revolt, but Guiana, and other minor french antilles not.
it could be that the economies of the other colonies were different. guiana for example i think was mainly a cash-crop based plantation colony, so unless you're willing to buy some slaves and start a sugarcane farm, there isnt much reason to move there
After the Haitian revolt, quite a few French went over to neighboring Cuba. Specifically, eastern Cuba where they restarted anew in the tobacco plantation industry.
North America would be so interesting today if it had remained divided roughly equally by Hispanophone, Francophone and Anglophone cultures.
What's really annoying is that I live in the US and despite living so much closer to Quebec City than Mexico City, so many signs are in English and Spanish, but not French, and there are a dozen Spanish Radio stations but not a single French one. French was banned for a century, while a whole month was dedicated for Spanish speakers.
But yeah, I like to imagine you have Francophone Canada, Anglophone US, and Hispanophone Mexico.
Canada : Francophone
USA : Anglophone
Mexico : Hispanophone
@@tamzidmohsinkhan3333 Roughly equal?
A divided nation is not as powerful.
Also Americans don't speak proper English either (just ask people in England 😄), they speak "globish" : an (over) simplified grammar-less version of English that anyone can learn in under a month.
@@GolemDude I would say multi-cultural and multi-lingual is the way to go. Spanish is more likely to be studied in Amercian schools rather than French, right? Even in New England?
Very interesting
Way down to Louisiana, close to New Orleans
Way back up in the woods, among the evergreens...
The French migrated to the new world in small numbers. Unlike the French the Spanish and English saw moving to the new world as an opportunity for the common man to acquire wealth and riches that the new world had to offer.
Demography is the key to understand most events in History and people don’t realize it. If France lost continental North America it’s not because they “didn’t care” or “didn’t fight”, but simply because the 20,000 settlers of New France were insignificant compared to the 20 million souls living in the British American colonies.
@@sans_hw187 exactly
They are in the province of Québec in Canada. I am one of Them.
At 11:02 the map is labeled inaccurately. All of that burgundy area was NOT the "Thirteen Colonies".
How intriguing
We are still here! My paternal family immigrated to New Orleans from Alsace Lorraine France in 1838, but an older branch of the same family that immigrated to New Orleans in 1789 is mostly located in Ohio
Do they speak French?
@@dinkster1729 I don’t…I know that one of my cousins speaks French, but 1838 is long before she was born, and her dad and my dad were brothers, so I know she didn’t learn French through the family. One can assume she learned it in school
@@johnhochenedel5765 I'm the only Goneau who speaks French. My youngest sister understands a bit of French that she picked up through osmosis because her 2 step-children and their spouses and their kids speak French. She also lives in Ottawa so is in a bilingual environment a fair bit. The government of Canada through the provinces was making a real effort in the late 1970s to help non-Francophones learn French. I took full advantage of the opportunity. I grew up in northern Ontario where 50% of the population was Francophone so I have no problem understanding the French fact of Canada.
@@johnhochenedel5765 A girl I knew in Quebec City, an American studying French for the summer was surprised that the dentist she had to see about a tooth didn't speak English because "he's been to university". I laughed to myself and said to her, "He's been to a Francophone university." I guess the idea that professionals in Quebec do train in French had never occurred to her.
@@dinkster1729 lol, what an odd coincidence…the patriarch other
branch of the Hochenedel family which stayed in Louisiana is a dentist…
I do genealogy research and found stuff about one of my French ancestors who had to prove he owned the land that he owned in St. Louis after the Louisiana Purchase or forfeit his land.
That's pretty standard. I think the Métis had to do the same when the Canadians took over.
Well the ones in SE MI are still here haha. My great grandpa and his parents and grand parents spoke French. My Great grandpa was actually the first Frenchman in our family tree (and his siblings) to be raised with English as the first language vs French. Now my Millennial Ass only knows curse words and kindergarten French but my dads family is Mexican and I can pop off haha 🤣
Most of this was true for my family roots and heritage. Even though I am from Brooklyn, NY. I still hold fast to my French-Creole roots.
Dustin "Poirier" from the UFC is a Louisiana French.
As a descendant of the French you speak of it hAs been a disater for our culture
I know it's not part of the storyline of the Louisiana Purchase but I gotta say what happened to Florida during the leadup period and after is very confusing. It was given to the British in 1763ish. It becomes part of America after 1776, I presume. Then Spain gets it back at somepoint after ... bewildering to me.
And you forgot to mention that Mobile as in Mobile, AL was the FIRST capital of the Louisiana Territory.
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They were called Africans not slaves..nothing slavic about them
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This is a special video for all the Americans who think the only commun point in our history is WW2 and D Day in Normandy...
America would not exist without the French, the statue of liberty is a gift from France and yes, a large part of the country was the property of France in the past...
So France is not a randum country that got the great idea to surrender during WW2, it's way more than that (plus France still own the victory record in history).
Technically the US is an "idea".
It was supposed to be the pinnacle of Enlightenement principles, the realization of the Founding Fathers' ideal place on Earth.
But today, it's more a place of corruption, centralized government and greed.
What is ironic in this trade of Louisiana between France and U.S., which Thomas Jefferson knew British would soon or late declare war to U.S. for Louisiana territory, this is a bank from England who lend the money to Americans to permit them to pay to France...Barings Bank
Generally earlier the French were better at natives, but with flare ups. Better than the British & USA.
Quebec Nova Scotia, Newfoundland and Florida were not part of the other 13 Colonies.
For a time, there was British North America after the conquest of what is now Nova Scotia including Cape Breton Island, Prince Edward Island, New Brunswick, Quebec which were colonized by the French, and Newfoundland and Labrador except for the French Treaty Shore. These British-held colonies did not rebel against the British crown. That is true. When did the term "13 Colonies" become commonplace?
Louisiana used French as legal language for years
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Now do a video of the Hispano settlers in USA west (CA, AZ, UT, NM, CO and TX). We have a different culture than Mexico. I’m proud to be from Southern Colorado and Northern New Mexico.
What happened is that the United States purchased France's "CLAIM" to the Louisiana Territory. The French did not actually occupy the land itself. But France's Louisiana claim was internationally recognized in Europe, and by the United States Government, which meant American citizens were not at liberty to simply move in and claim lands for their farms. France would have regarded that as a foreign invasion of its lands. The U.S. would have to lay claim to all that land first and that meant purchasing France's land claim.
It's a long story of how France came to claim all that vast territory because in history, Great Britain forced France out of North America after a series of victories in the Seven Years War, known in North America as the French and Indian Wars.
Left out of the story were the large number of Native American tribes occupying the Louisiana Territory, as their ancestors had for hundreds of years. They had no idea the lands under their feet were being claimed and bought and sold between Europeans and former Europeans. How many Native Americans lived and died in the Louisiana Territory before Americans finally moved west to claim the territory purchased from France, without even knowing their lands no longer belonged to them? Naturally in the run of history many would put up a fierce, if ultimately futile resistance.
5:19 Woah, didn't expect this kind of deep drama between colonies 😂
Really? Where are you? In Canada, we study this stuff in elementary school and, possibly, in high school.
The problem with that story is that the French did not actually own the land that they sold to the US. But that didn't stop them from doing it anyway. And considering that the US eliminated most of the native peoples who were there first anyway (Manifest Destiny), they could have got the land without giving the French anything.
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The movie "Southern Comfort" (1980) sends a French "hello" to the Anglo-Saxon Murrica
The french history of america is really overlooked with how long theyve been here most old stock Americans have some french heritage
It was goong really well up until 1814 lol
sad yeap
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France sold Louisiana because of there lose to Haiti. 🇭🇹