The scientific advisory board
31 members sit on this council, which is tasked with examining, validating and assessing the scientific content on the website.
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Indigenous North Americans in French Fiction (1552-1801)
An abundance of travel narratives from New France, and the consecration of a colonial Canadian canon beyond the realm of fiction, long overshadowed a vast corpus of exoticism. In the early 20th century Gilbert Chinard red...
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French Knowledge of the Indigenous Peoples
The narratives written by French observers— missionaries, administrators, officers, or naturalists— in the 17th and 18thcenturies about the Indigenous people of North America form an impressively large and detailed corpus...
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Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne de Bienville
Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne de Bienville, who was born in Montreal in 1680 and died in Paris in 1767, is often presented by historians as the “father of Louisiana”. Given his wanderings and fields of action, he would better fi...
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Mardi Gras
From 1699 to now, Mardi Gras has punctuated the daily lives of the Louisianans for three centuries.
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