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Marketed in Paris as a “New Eden,” French Louisiana was anything but paradise — swamps, disease, and a struggling settlement of only hundreds. John Law’s Mississippi stock bubble turned the colony into Europe’s hottest investment, leading France to forcibly deport and mass-marry settlers when no one volunteered. New Orleans survived not by promises, but by the resilience of the forgotten.
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