Yari Honora is a historian and member of the Historic New Orleans Collection Association, a historical research center that manages several museums, publishing houses, and research centers. A native of New Orleans, he comes from a Creole family that has lived in Louisiana for more than two centuries.
LE FIGARO. – What does Louisiana’s French past represent today?
Yari Honora. – The French heritage remains fundamental. This is one of the factors that makes Louisiana unique in the United States. Throughout the American colonial period, when the country was founded, we were still under the sovereignty of France or Spain; our history began differently than the rest of the United States, and it continues to have an impact to this day.
Although the Louisiana Purchase took place almost 220 years ago in 1803, the population remained very stable and the memory of French history remained very strong. It is available…
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Source: Le Figaro
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