A new animated series produced in Louisiana French has been launched ... The series has English and French subtitles, as the cartoon emphasizes the unique ways of speaking among Louisianans ...

(École means school in French, and Pointe-au-Chien, or point of the dog, is the name of the local Indian tribe and the bayou across the street.) Louisiana ... Early French influence led to ...

Les Aventures de Boudini et Ses Amis, which also airs on LPB, is a French-language children's cartoon that the Télé-Louisiane website describes as "time-bending adventure through Louisiana ...

Louisiana has a long ... NATHALIE DAJKO: We have the French that is spoken by these people who came directly from France. JUHASZ: That early influence led to many dialects. In the late 1700s ...

Specific laws also reflect Louisiana’s Spanish and French roots. For example, the principle of “forced heirship“—that a child is legally guaranteed a share of his parents’ estate—comes ...

provide some of the earliest examples of Creole fashion in Louisiana. His paintings, which feature prominent new Orleanians of the 18th and early 19th centuries, show the influence of French ...

In the southern US, French is spoken by a community ... Today they make up a tenth of Louisiana and their presence over the years have left a marked influence on the state. These days, the Cajuns ...

NEW ORLEANS — The number of French speakers in Louisiana has fallen over the decades. Between 1921 to 1974, the Louisiana Constitution banned French as the primary language taught in public ...