Emilie Gagnet Leumas: 1 book

Book cover of Speaking French in Louisiana, 1720-1955

Speaking French in Louisiana, 1720-1955

Linguistic Practices of the Catholic Church

by Sylvie DuBois, Emilie Gagnet Leumas, Malcolm Richardson
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2018

Over the course of its three-hundred-year history, the Catholic Church in Louisiana witnessed a prolonged shift from French to English, with some south Louisiana churches continuing to prepare marriage, baptism, and burial records in French as late as the mid-twentieth century. Speaking French in...
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