The Best Hope for France’s Young? Get Out

Re:The Best Hope for France’s Young? Get Out by hga on Saturday June 29, 2013 @05:29PM (#5963760)

"France has always been a land to which people dream of coming. Not leaving."

That would be news to my mother and her ancestors: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cajun

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Re:The Best Hope for France’s Young? Get Out by cobrausn on Saturday June 29, 2013 @06:08PM (#5963863)

My dear father [...] you can come here boldly with my dear mother and all the other Acadian families. They will always be better off than in France. There are neither duties nor taxes to pay and the more one works, the more one earns without doing harm to anyone. —Jean-Baptiste Semer, 1766[8]

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Re:The Best Hope for France’s Young? Get Out by theorique on Saturday June 29, 2013 @06:18PM (#5963895)

Also see: Eastern Canada.

(Mind you, this was in the 18th century, but still.)

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Re:The Best Hope for France’s Young? Get Out by mynameishere on Saturday June 29, 2013 @06:59PM (#5964002)

Cajuns were from Eastern Canada.

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Re:The Best Hope for France’s Young? Get Out by theorique on Monday July 01, 2013 @10:43AM (#5970961)

True, back there they are called Acadians, but it's the same people.

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