Speaking French in Louisiana, 1720-1955: Linguistic Practices of the Catholic Church by Malcolm Richardson, Emilie Gagnet Leumas, Sylvie DuBois

Speaking French in Louisiana, 1720-1955: Linguistic Practices of the Catholic Church

Malcolm Richardson, Emilie Gagnet Leumas, Sylvie DuBois

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nonfiction history religion
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Over the course of its three-hundred-year history, the Catholic Church in Louisiana witnessed a prolonged shift from French to English, with some south Louisiana churches continuing to prepare marriage, baptism, and burial records in French as lat...

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