Spent yesterday celebrating Bastille Day – Vive La France !, Vive Libertie, Egalite, Franternitie !
Well, works proceeds well. Yesterday, I spent about 4 hours creating the 1718 portal page. Most of the time was spent on the lame dial-up downloading pictures to photoshop into backgrounds for the web project. The actual web page only took a few minutes in GoLive to create, once all the elements were in place. It still needs some editing, but it should be up in a few days.
Today, I spent in the city doing library work at Loyola, gathering data, and putting more infrastructure into place – getting OKed for Loyola’s WiFi—. I got a few more leads from bibliographies. I need to get an overview of Louis XIV’s colonial policy – or lack thereof – to serve as a literary envelope for France’s continued mismanagement of Louisiana. I tell you if it wasn’t for Bienville everything French about Louisiana would be either Spanish or British. And we would be just another American city on a river!
Anybody have any leads on the feminine side of the colony. I’m getting bits and pieces, but I need to get a lot more info on the Ursulines, the casket girls, the quadroons,and those “other” women who came to the city in it’s infancy.
See you next time.
July 16th, 2010 at 7:22 pm For the Ursuline nuns, check out Masterless Mistresses by Emily Clark. IMHO, the book is mediocre, but since its recent, the bibliography should be a goldmine. For the quadroons, I’ll email you an article in pdf format. Should be a good starting point.