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For the french side (in french) 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.
> Later researchers would remark that while none of the correction girls had apparently had children, the casquette girls had been remarkably fertile. What does it mean?
For the french side (in french) 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.
I think everyone did that to be fair.
> Later researchers would remark that while none of the correction girls had apparently had children, the casquette girls had been remarkably fertile. What does it mean?
Did the author just make up a new term? This doesn't feel accurate at all, but I'm not going to spend time debunking this with French sources. Wikipedia really has to be taken with a grain of salt.
Ironically, this reminds me of a quote from a French mathematician, philosopher: “All of humanity's problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone.” -- Blaise Pascal
To balance it out, "Power corrupts" is nonsense.
Power reveals. --Robert Caro
> Later researchers would remark that while none of the correction girls had apparently had children, the casquette girls had been remarkably fertile. What does it mean?
It’s a joke. Since everyone claims they were descended from the first group and no one wants to admit being descended from the second group, if you take it at face value it appears that the first group has tons of children and the second group none.