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For the french side (in french) https://www.radiofrance.fr/franceculture/podcasts/le-pourquoi-du-comment-histoire/pourquoi-deportait-on-des-femmes-en-louisiane-

For the french side (in french) https://www.radiofrance.fr/franceculture/podcasts/le-pourquoi-du-comment-histoire/pourquoi-deportait-on-des-femmes-en-louisiane-4397490 https://www.radiofrance.fr/franceculture/podcasts/le-pourquo... It's of course not some specific move just for Louisiana, France was sending trouble makers and people they didn't want in their society, men and women, to many other remote places that needed warm bodies.

Neil44 4y ago
I think everyone did that to be fair.
- Nursie 4y ago
  In Britain it was even a sentence handed down by judges - "Transportation" to one of the colonies. Better than hanging, but not by much if a lot of transportees died en-route.