![]() Though the transplanted trappers enslaved Native American girls, that didn’t satisfy their needs, and five years after Iberville’s landing, a shipment of twenty-two French girls arrived in Louisiana. The first settlement at what is now New Orleans was a campsite established on the east bank of the Mississippi by Pierre Le Moyne, Sieur d’Iberville-a former fur trader up in Canada-in 1699, on, appropriately enough, Fat Tuesday. Ned Sublette’s latest book, The World That Made New Orleans, is a journey through the early days of the city-back to before it even was one-and an examination of the influence of each culture that successively dropped its wares on the Big Easy. ![]() New Orleans has always been the most polyglot of American cities, with streets and landmarks named in a multitude of tongues (and even a little English) it is a place where stolid religiosity stands cheek by jowl with high lasciviousness. ![]()
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