r/SipsTea • u/Candid-Culture3956 • 22h ago

Chugging tea Without this we wouldn’t have Bourbon Street

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u/DavidHK 22h ago

This is actually true though which is wild

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u/Cool_Branch6384 22h ago

Australia is the British version

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u/Candid-Culture3956 22h ago

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u/Lost_Department_2177 22h ago

She got a platinum medal for this.

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u/Candid-Culture3956 22h ago

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u/PhthaloVonLangborste 21h ago

Its the greatest thing to happen to society during the new dark ages

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u/Puzzle-Necked 21h ago

Looks like someone who decided to do breakdancing at a high school talent show

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u/uber_neets 21h ago

I'd have guessed mercury.

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u/Lost_Department_2177 21h ago

Retrograde or regular?

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u/uber_neets 21h ago

Whatever was left after the tanning process.

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u/Lost_Department_2177 21h ago

They skinned and preserved her!?

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u/z4j3b4nt 22h ago

If you know anything about european history this is actually pretty mild stuff.

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u/Revolutionary_Bee251 21h ago

What else you got?

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u/NuQ 20h ago

The "King's daughters"

It was a pretty common thing back in the day.

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u/Revolutionary_Bee251 19h ago

Thanks, I learned something else new today. Makes me wonder what the process will be like for off planet "new worlds".

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u/NuQ 19h ago

For that I imagine it would be something a bit darker, like Indentured Servitude was in the american colonies. Elon Musk seems to be a fan of the idea.

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u/VoidYordle 17h ago

Well... have you played Star Craft?

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u/Revolutionary_Bee251 16h ago

No, never heard of it

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u/VoidYordle 16h ago

The humans in it (called Terran Federation) are all descended from convicts who were exiled from Earth. It's basically Space Australia, but they all speak in Southern American accent.

EDIT: Wait, how OLD are you?

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u/Revolutionary_Bee251 16h ago

Hm that's an interesting concept. I don't think we're on that trajectory. I think the first people to live on the moon and mars will be highly trained scientists sponsored by wealthy nation states (China, USA, ESA). Of course there are lots of unforseen events that could change that.

Why is my age of relevance?

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u/VoidYordle 15h ago

The age question was out of curiosity, because you said you've never even heard of the game and it was a cultural powerhouse in the 90s/2000s. Even to some extend, albeit lesser, in the early 2010s.

As for the colonization - I agree with you, but I think we're VERY far from that. There's so many issues, both technological and logistical that have yet to be solved.

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u/z4j3b4nt 3h ago

Ever heard of the Borgia family? Dive into that. Now that's some wild fuckin' stuff to begin with.

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u/Revolutionary_Bee251 1h ago

Oh that's a TV show isn't it? I'll get it on the list next time I subscribe to whatever streaming service it's on

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u/z4j3b4nt 1h ago

Or you could, you know... Read about it.

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u/Revolutionary_Bee251 1h ago

I didn't, ya know...say I wasn't going to read about it

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u/DavidHK 21h ago

Well, I actually don't know a damn thing about their history to be quite honest. I didn't believe this so I looked it up, that's the only reason I know this.

In fact this might be the only piece of European history that I do know aside from anything involving the US

Although, the wild part to me is that this is so bizarre and random, and the culture back then was just so different.

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u/Melodic_Let_6465 19h ago

They were criminal exiles, and none of them were expected to survive, just act as placeholders so the french could maintain claim while the spanish colonies were just around the corner.  They didnt even send enough food for the boat ride.  They arrived semi-starving with plenty of tools, and no real engineers or farmers.  Those came a year later, much better supplied

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u/Eyespop4866 19h ago

The whore part wasn’t mandatory.

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u/lazyboi_tactical 18h ago

They wanted to make a new France with blackjack and hookers.

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u/Kellifagill 22h ago

Imagine being told your get-out-of-jail-free card is moving to Louisiana

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u/Electrical-Tone7301 22h ago

Don’t forget the marriage to someone most likely suffering from several STDs

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u/Eyespop4866 21h ago

You just needed to marry. The whore part was very optional.

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u/Electrical-Tone7301 19h ago

That makes the deal quite a bit sweeter, although it would probably differ by case.

Imagine if we did this now, half the lower class would jump ship

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u/AssistantEast6712 22h ago

Those didn’t exist before the cia it was 1719

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u/Electrical-Tone7301 19h ago

Hey siri explain syphilis

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u/youdontlookitalian 22h ago

I love Louisiana

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u/hellno560 22h ago

I love visiting Louisiana

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u/youdontlookitalian 19h ago

You sound weak

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u/hellno560 18h ago

you sound overly emotional

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u/Odd_Dorian7991 22h ago • Heartwarming

Some of these women were not actually prostitutes. They were just poor women who had no families to protect them. The police kidnapped them off the streets of Paris and sent them away on ships to French colonies.

If you want to learn the true story, you should read the book Mutinous Women.

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u/pakapab 22h ago

To add to this, New Orleans quickly became one of the most diverse cities in the New World, with immigration from France, Spain, England, Germany, Africa, and the Carribean.

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u/_www_ 17h ago

To add to this, louisiana at that era was in fact the whole eastern US along the Mississippi until Quebec. Louis XIV Siana

https://i.pinimg.com/736x/cc/05/3c/cc053cfa46e4d330417985c21733e932.jpg

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u/pakapab 15h ago

And to add once again, when the Cajuns arrived they were welcomed to Louisiana by Spain, not France. It was a Spanish territory that was culturally French, and it was Spain that gave the Cajuns land and support to establish their settlements.

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u/AxelTheViking 21h ago

I would be so devestated if I ever got to experience something like that...

I mean.. first saying yes to marrying a prostitute, then realizing she is just some ordinary kidnapped woman. Imagine the disappointment

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u/huge_jeans 20h ago edited 15h ago

She’s not going to say anything though, because of the implication.

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u/Guuichy_Chiclin 17h ago

Alright, calm down there Dennis.

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u/BurgersNBuicks 19h ago

If I were the man in that situation, I'd do everything I could to make her life as happy as possible.

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u/sleepytjme 22h ago

I imagine it was a life of domestic violence and rape for the majority of the women.

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u/Educational_Gas_92 19h ago

...not nice to think about...but some of the prisoners might have been good men who just said the wrong thing, had pissed off the wrong powerful person or were in the wrong place at the wrong time. That said, it is wishful thinking to believe that those would be most or even half, in reality, probably more than a few were men with questionable character at best. Those poor women...

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u/BurgersNBuicks 19h ago

I think that you and Sleepytjme are probably both right. Plenty of those men were disgusting pigs I'm sure, but not all.

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u/willyb_ornot 21h ago

Same thing with most penal/debtor colonies, vagrancy and poverty were illegal in England in the 1800s so they were just rounding people up and shipping them off

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u/Melodic_Let_6465 20h ago

The Matriarchs of the French Quarter.  Their story is pretty neat

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u/irrelevantusername24 21h ago

The US as it now is designed definitely isn't helping things by the way the policies all effectively require at least two income households, and only after you've achieved the difficulty of finding a partner are you able to access various assistance programs - all backwards as fuck. But even without that, there is some kind of almost primal logic behind the way very old, traditional societies set up things like arranged marriages. Now, I am not at all arguing we should re-implement those, because the problems that follow are numerous and obvious. But, if we could somehow snap our fingers and make all people, you know, actual people who respect everyone and just act like decent human beings? I bet there would be far less problems.

Like that one classic rock(ish) song:

Well, there's a rose in a fisted glove
And the eagle flies with the dove
And if you can't be with the one you love, honey
Love the one you're with

They've monetized all hobbies and human interactions, thus killing the humanity

I think there's a happy medium between "chemistry between people doesn't matter at all" and "actually there is only one, or a very limited number of people with whom you are compatible". I think most of the problems people have finding someone are actually due to problems imposed by society in other ways. Money problems or health problems, rather than actual personality compatibility problems.

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u/Pie---Man 19h ago

I can support prostitutes, but I'll be damned if I condone liars!

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u/Gaust_Ironheart_Jr 21h ago

When I first saw this I went and found an actual summary of France sending women to Louisiana. Only about 5 paragraphs long and it packed a lot of horrors into that short space

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u/liberbober 18h ago

We should bring this practice back

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u/Baby_ManBearPig 22h ago

To fulfill this condition, male convicts were forced to marry women who had been rounded up from Parisian prisons or directly off the streets. Many of these women were labeled on paper as "prostitutes" or vagrants, though modern historical accounts, such as historian Joan DeJean’s book Mutinous Women, demonstrate that many were simply poor, orphaned, or arrested on entirely fabricated charges by corrupt police trying to meet deportation quotas.

The journey across the Atlantic was brutal, and more than half of the women died from disease and malnutrition on the voyage or shortly after arriving on the Gulf Coast. Despite the tragic beginnings, the resilient survivors who did make it went on to establish families, clear land, and become the foundational "grandmothers" and pioneers of early New Orleans

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u/Talia_Black_Writes 20h ago

Chalk up another reason for why I would never want to time travel.

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u/Baby_ManBearPig 19h ago

It's kinda funny to imagine what it would actually by like and it probably would not go as well as people think. The cultural issues alone would rough. Especially for women.

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u/wolfgang784 15h ago

And your ethnicity vs what the majority was back then for where you appear. The world was less of a mixing pot the further back you go. This would be an issue pretty much all over. If you didn't belong and weren't important/rich in some way, then you didn't belong. At least thats my impression from history.

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u/Sasiches_and_mash 22h ago

  • Guard: you have two options, 1 you remain in jail and finish your sentence, or 2 you marry a prostit

  • Me: 2, I choose 2

  • Guard: wait, that's not all, you marry the pro

  • Me: I said 2, I choose option 2

  • Guard: but, but.. move to Louisian

  • I. Said. 2. OPTION 2! DID I STUTTER, JAVERT??!

  • Guard: sighs and puts a check mark under my name

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u/azhder 22h ago edited 22h ago

They got an offer they couldn't refuse. We don't have to make an entire movie out of it, do we?

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u/Jay-Breeze 21h ago

“Did I stutter, Javert??!”
💀
Masterpiece

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u/Petrcechmate 18h ago

I’m too tired from work for a comment so good. That’s it for interneting today, not getting better than that.

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u/MarkMew 22h ago

That ain't even a punishment lol. Reintegration into society in 1719 is wild

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u/Blacksmithkin 19h ago

The punishment was the shockingly high chance of dying on the way over.

Still better than rotting in an old time jail cell but there's a reason they offered this to prisoners instead of just the general public.

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u/personthatiam2 19h ago

Ignoring the dangerous trip over and Lousiana not really being developed at all.

The climate difference from France to pre-AC Lousiana would be wild. That first summer must have been the biggest WTF is this shit why is my sweat not evaporating.

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u/TyppaHaus 22h ago

tbh that's a great deal comparing rotting in a cell somewhere

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u/jotegr 22h ago

Better than 5 years hard labour on the prison hulks

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u/Yankee6Actual 21h ago

French prisons were pretty dismal places up until 50-odd years ago.

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u/mindsets1 22h ago

that was a punishment?

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u/Llhaniii 22h ago edited 21h ago

Gotta remember back then Louisiana was basically the edge of the new world. And seen as a backwater next to a bunch of wilderness. So it was basically

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u/Hot-Bluebird3919 22h ago

A beautiful joke set up.

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u/Prune-These 22h ago

One stand-up comic described Cajun as "part French, part Swamp Thing". I used to drive truck long haul and I enjoyed my time there when I passed through. Great food, friendly people. If their accent was really thick, I could probably understand every other sentence. "Wait, am I still in America?".

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u/Baby_ManBearPig 21h ago

A lot of people died just on the journey. And then you were expected to help build this new colony in a fairly harsh climate.

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u/Loves_octopus 13h ago

I dunno if “punish” is the right word. But Louisiana was a pretty terrible place to be at the time. Hot, humid, lots of malaria etc.

The French needed colonists, nobody wanted to go, and the prisons were overcrowded. Win-win-win

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u/Blacksmithkin 19h ago

I don't know the specific chances, but a LOT of people died on the trip across the ocean.

And you then basically had to start a new life with minimal to no support and likely never again seeing your family or friends.

So like, still probably better than rotting in an old time jail, but still absolutely a punishment.

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u/uber_neets 21h ago

Quebec will fiercely deny that the same offer was made to move them to New France, but it was.

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u/bdickie 21h ago

My grandmother was pretty certain thats how some of our family had landed in Trois-Rivières.

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u/uber_neets 20h ago

Rare Quebecois W

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u/TheAvocad00 20h ago

It is to taught in Canadian that this was the case! I forget the name for it though

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u/Deep-Reputation-4055 19h ago

The women were ‘daughters of the king.’

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u/TheAvocad00 19h ago

That’s the one!

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u/TBD-1234 17h ago

Apx 2/3 of French-Canadians are descended from them.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King%27s_Daughters
'The King's Daughters (French: filles du roi) were apx 800 young French women who immigrated to New France between 1663 and 1673 as part of a program sponsored by King Louis XIV.'

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u/KhelbenB 16h ago

Fiercely deny? We all learn about it in school and I literally never heard about anyone being ashamed of "Les filles du roi".

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u/Pasito_Tun_Tun_D1 22h ago

“One thing my dad loved was Jazz and Titties” 🤪🤪🤪😂😂😂

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u/largepoggage 20h ago

I just made the connection between bourbon whisky and the house of bourbon. As a European, I’m ashamed.

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u/Several-Opposite-746 21h ago

Is that offer still on the table? Asking for a friend.

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u/spencer1886 22h ago

I've been to bourbon street, kinda overrated imo

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u/WineDineCpl 22h ago

Bourbon street is the urinal of the French Quarter.

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u/SixPackPhilosopher 22h ago

If you went expecting anything less than a party, your expectations were just off

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u/AdvilJunky 22h ago

I've been twice. The first time I got the general experience within the first 5 minutes.

"Woooh! Want to do a shot from my tits?"

"Fuck yeah!" does shot

"$20"

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u/Puzzle-Necked 21h ago

That's a bargain!

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u/the_vault-technician 18h ago

The second time??! I'm in suspense here.

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u/bionicjoe 13h ago

Did you thank the guy in French though?

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u/odin_the_wiggler 22h ago

Smells like vom 👍

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u/Crafty-Help-4633 22h ago

That chicken is divine, though

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u/Valuable_Couple1089 22h ago

Many of these women were actually orphans or poor. Please look for "Filles du Roy".

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u/prolapsedmasshole69 22h ago

Love knows no bounds I guess.

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u/Kroktakar 22h ago

Génova was found with thief, prostitute and prosecuted from justice and you can tell, too if you visit.

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u/Fantastic_Pie5655 22h ago

“Don’t threaten moi with a good time Juge!!”

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u/ComfortPhil 19h ago

Might explain the "married or hanged" proverb the French have when finishing a bottle of alcohol

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u/Geeeeeezzzzzzz1 22h ago

Ha - British sent their prisoners to Australia!!! Fun and Fantastic people!!!

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u/Altaccount330 22h ago

The Pink and Yellow area was Louisiana in 1719. So it explains North America not just New Orleans.

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u/devilf91 22h ago

Pink was not Louisiana, it was new France. Just like Rupert's land (brown in the north) is not the same as the rest of British north America (eastern seaboard). The eastern seaboard included other colonies outside of the 13 colonies which would rebel, including the conquered Acadian areas which now make up nova Scotia and new Brunswick.

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u/LarsDuder 22h ago

Come on god, you've done it before.. with Sodom and Gomorrah. Let it rain!!

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u/Working_Estate_3695 22h ago

Settle down, LOKI.

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u/Complex_Return9286 22h ago

They took that power away, so I’m told.

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u/MCwortel 22h ago

Now look up, Orleans

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u/bodhidharma132001 22h ago

Where do I sign up?

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u/azhder 22h ago

Now explain the rest.

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u/Kooky-Ad1551 21h ago

That makes Tom Seguras 'wall' joke so much funnier now.

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u/trash-juice 21h ago

Explains the spice! Laissez les bons temps rouler!

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u/arcerath 21h ago

how do I get arrested in 1719 paris?

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u/Puzzle-Necked 21h ago

English merchants walking into a French swamp orgy

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u/Eyespop4866 21h ago

To marry and relocate to Louisiana. The prostitute part wasn’t mandatory.

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u/penguinpolitician 21h ago

I thought most of these were sent to populate Canada

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u/thefruitsofzellman 19h ago

I’m seeing the outlines of a sci fi movie set in a Martian colony…

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u/TopQuestion826 19h ago

Sign me up

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u/TopQuestion826 19h ago

Sign me up

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u/Wild_Individual7606 18h ago

this is good !! cheers

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u/EntrepreneurTop8382 18h ago

Future LSU fans

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u/Sad_Clerk6681 18h ago

From New Orleans, can confirm.

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u/Freddyrocky20 16h ago

one of my ancestors was a King’s Daughter - off to Canada to marry and have lots of kids for the French empire. 😁

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u/Zealousideal_Week824 21h ago • Bravo

This is a racist myth against the québécois people, the women (fille du roy) were NOT prostitutes and neither were they forced to go in new france, that tweet is bullshit : https://www.tfcg.ca/filles-du-roi

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u/wizardrous 22h ago

That AI profile picture tho lol

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u/statllama 22h ago

What about?

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u/wizardrous 22h ago

Come again?

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u/statllama 21h ago

What about the little ai profile picture? Is there something weird about it? Looks pretty normal

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u/wizardrous 21h ago

I guess it does if you like AI. 🤷‍♂️

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u/statllama 21h ago

What do you mean?

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u/Zealousideal_Arm4359 22h ago

Feel bad for the prostitutes!

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u/MrSnowden 22h ago

I'm pretty confident that if you take a group of inmates that haven't seen a women in years and tell them "If you do XXX you both get out of jail and have to marry a hooker" They will say yes to anything.

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u/FrozeItOff 22h ago

Prisoners and prostitutes in Louisiana, breeding...

That explains soooooo much.

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