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Posted on 02/13/2026 5:05:48 PM PST by Vision
Enjoy. I find it strange that there isn't more French influence in American culture given American history.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fAuojdxNDp4
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While they were important allies, there was never a major wave of French immigration to America. Louisiana is the only place I can think of with significant French heritage. Maybe St. Louis, but the small French population there and in other outposts on the Mississippi was quickly overwhelmed by the sheer numbers of American settlers pouring west. So they left their heritage in the form of geographic names all across the Midwest and Mississippi river valley, but not so much in the culture.
They were Catholic for one thing, and French.
Florida’s forgotten feasts: The many contenders for America’s first Thanksgiving
The French Huguenots that fled to Virginia were Protestants.
Brandy or Wine....well in the name of peace I like both.
Like the early Irish.
Yep
Too bad this piece didn’t discuss one of the miraculous events of the revolutionary war. In the Bulletproof George Washington, it recounted how an English sharpshooter in this particular battle had GW in his sights, but was overwhelmed by a sudden feeling of disgust at the thought of shooting this particular man. He didn’t pull the trigger, & Washington saw him, turned & cantered away. Later the sharpshooter was told who that man was...Washington, himself. He could’ve ended the war then & there, but something discouraged him from doing so. The hand of God again protecting Washington.
Ghetto culture rules here now.
Many French-speakers from Quebec crossed the border into New England seeking jobs. Maine and New Hampshire had significant Franco=American populations.
Many Basques from France and Spain came to the West in the nineteenth century. They settled in Southern and Eastern California and Nevada. Bakersfield, Calif. is famous for its Basque restaurants. If you go to one for a meal, make sure to skip your previous meal because they will serve multiple courses.
We used to see Basque sheepherders herding sheep in the Walnut Valley in Southern California when it was still agriultural. Their flocks would often block thoroughfares.. But they have moved on, and from what I understand, sheep herding in the American West is now done mostly by South Americans.
The Acadians were dispersed all along the east coast and the Gulf of America in mid 1700’s. Manchester, NH was a French community back in the mid 20th century, where I was born.
Bkmk
Brandywine comes from the German “Brantwein” which means “burned wine”. It’s what they called distilled wine products.
CC
Amazing. Never heard that, thanks.
I like this one better
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kPB9_c4cb3Y
Their communist society failed and everyone drifted off.
Then in the 1970’s the city of Dallas, Tx decided to embrace the name for the downtown area and even named a tower structure with the name La Reunion.
50 years ago My wife and I moved to a rural area just North of Old Mines, MO. There were people there that still spoke what was referred to as paw-paw French. A friend of ours resided on a family land grant dating back to the 1700’s.
A historically interesting area. Old Mines was the jumping off point for Rocky Mountain fur trappers. In Potosi, MO, the next town just south of Old Mines, is the grave of Moses Austin. Him and his son Steven owned a lead mining company there in the Old Mines Area before organizing a immigration move to Texas.
When I worked in western Wyoming for a couple months in late 1975, there were still Basque sheep herders at work.
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