The fleur de lis was on many French flags, and the Acadians retained loyalty to their old country. When Joseph Broussard, or Beausoleil, led Acadian settlers to Louisiana, he and his people ...

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — French President Emmanuel Macron arrived Friday in Louisiana, the American state most closely aligned historically with his country and named for France’s Sun King, to ...

In relation to this, Catholicism has deep roots in the state of Louisiana. The first French and Spanish settlers of Louisiana were devout Catholics and, therefor, the state was under the Catholic ...