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From: "Lucie LeBlanc Consentino" <>
Subject: RE: [ACADIAN-CAJUN] Acadians from France to Louisiana in 1777?
Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2005 16:26:07 -0400
In-Reply-To: <200508232015.j7NKFEa1021109@mail.rootsweb.com>


Jean-Jacques LeBlanc married twice and died in France

Lucie LeBlanc Consentino
Acadian Ancestral Home
www.acadian-home.org
Société Promotion Grand-Pré
http://www.grand-pre.com/index_en.html
CEA - Moncton University
www.umoncton.ca/etudeacadiennes/centre/cea.html

-----Original Message-----
From: Stanley LeBlanc [mailto:]
Sent: Tuesday, August 23, 2005 4:15 PM
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Subject: [ACADIAN-CAJUN] Acadians from France to Louisiana in 1777?

Several sources claimed that the Count d'Arana had arranged for 2 Acadian
families composed of 22 persons to be sent to Louisiana from France.

According to Albert J. Robichaux, Jr. in The Acadian Exiles in Nantes
1775-1785, p. viii, this didn't occur. He states:

"...In 1777, the Count d'Aranda, Ambassador of Spain in Paris, was asked if
his government had any objections to the transporting of the families of
Jean Jacques LeBlanc and Andre Templais, composed of 22 persons, to
Louisiana. Although earlier historians have mistaken the request as having
been fulfilled, the documents prove that the French government abandoned the
idea on the grounds that the cost would be too great; therefore, no Acadians
came to Louisiana from France in 1777..."

Stanley LeBlanc
http://www.thecajuns.com


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