I had to laugh when the French finally ponied up some cash. Bet they're glad NO is not theirs right now.
LOL
NO WAS theirs at one time.
Betcha they are glad they sold it now...
I saw that Jacques is in the Hospital for something. I don't know anymore than that.
(to refresh our history, Jefferson send emissaries to buy New Orleans from France, to control the Mississippi River....they ended up buying the entire Louisiana Purchase, for 3 cents an acre....and funding Napolean's future wars)