History of the Creoles in Louisiana

The first white settlers of Louisiana were French, usually the second born sons of aristocrats who left France to seek adventure in the New World. They brought their traditional style of cooking from the continent, and being rich aristocrats, they also brought along their chefs as well! These Frenchmen came to be called Creoles, and made up the upper crust of New Orleans. Their descendants can still be found in the French Quarter today. This manuscript takes a look at the history of this unique group of people.

One city in the United States is, without pretension or mention, picturesque and antique. A quaint Southern-European aspect is encountered in the narrow streets of its early boundaries, on its old Place d’Armes, along its balconied facades, and about its cool, flowery inner courts.

Among the great confederation of States whose Anglo-Saxon life and inspiration swallows up all alien immigration, there is one in which a Latin civilization, sinewy, valiant, cultured, rich, and proud, holds out against extinction. There is a people in the midst of the population of Louisiana, who send representatives and senators to the Federal Congress, and who vote for the nation’s rulers. They celebrate the Fourth of July; and ten days later, with far greater enthusiasm, they commemorate that great Fourteenth that saw the fall of the Bastile. Other citizens of the United States, but not themselves, they call Americans.

• A Hundred Thousand People
• African Slaves and Indian Wars
• Barataria Destroyed
• Brighter Skies
• Burr’s Conspiracy
• Count O’Reilly and Spanish Law
• Fauborg Ste. Marie
• Flush Times
• French Founders
• From Subjects To Citizens
• How Boré Made Sugar
• Inundations
• Later Days
• New Orleans in 1803
• New Orleans Sought – Louisiana Bought
• Praying to the King
• Spain Against Fate
• Spanish Conciliation
• Spanish New Orleans
• The American Revolution On The Gulf Side
• The Americans
• The Battle of New Orleans
• The British Invasion
• The Creoles Sing the Marseillaise
• The Creoles’ City
• The Days of Pestilence
• The End of The Pirates
• The First Creoles
• The General in Natchitoches
• The Great Epidemic
• The Insurrection
• The New Generation
• The Pirates of Barataria
• The Price of Half Convictions
• The School-Master
• The West Indian Cousin
• Ulloa, Aubry, and the Superior Council
• Who are the Creoles?
• Why Not Bigger Than London