As noted above, the first owner of Laura Plantation was Guillaume Duparc from France, who went on to marry a (white) French ...

Terpsichore, Thalia, Urania, and Marie Agnes Simon; paintings from Birthplace: Remembering Louisiana's Forgotten ... These were young French women, specifically of marriageable age, whose passage ...

On a sunny Saturday morning in December, a group of Baby Dolls were strutting around the gardens of the Historic BK House in the French Quarter and singing in Louisiana Creole. The nine women of ...

Creole is the non-Anglo-Saxon culture and lifestyle that flourished before Louisiana was sold to the United States in 1803. They mostly spoke French and ... with women running the plantation.