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- Title
NOTES ON THE SOCIAL ORGANIZATION OF A FRENCH VILLAGE IN SOUTH LOUISIANNA.
- Authors
Parenton, Vernon J.
- Abstract
This paper describes essential social characteristics of the French-speaking people along Bayou Lafourche, Louisiana. The section studied, approximately one and one-quarter miles in length, lies on the eastern side of the bayou in the second ward of the parish of Assumption. The center of this area converges in the little decadent and dormant, nucleated settlement called Plattenville, one of numerous small settlements that resembles a long one-streeted village winding its way across the country-side, along the bayou for over 75 miles. It is located between the towns of Donaidsonville and Napoleonville. The settlement of Bayou Lafourche dates back to the middle of the Eighteenth Century when a number of French people settled along this stream. Shortly afterwards, the population was increased by the gradual infiltration of the homeless, wandering Acadians. A number of these people settled along the Mississippi River in the territory now comprising the parishes of St. James, St. John, and Ascension, and along both banks of Bayou Lafourche.
- Subjects
LAFOURCHE, Bayou (La.); LOUISIANA; UNITED States; FRENCH Americans; HUMAN settlements; SOCIAL structure; ACADIANS
- Publication
Social Forces, 1938, Vol 17, Issue 1, p73
- ISSN
0037-7732
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.2307/2571152