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Originally Posted by CutiePie2000
The fleur de lis comes to Louisiana from France by way of deported Acadians who brought it with them from Acadia to Louisiana (i.e. Acadia is a region in what is now Canada...it's basically parts of Nova Scotia and New Brunswick). Even Louisiana itself is named for King Louis XIV of France.
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True, but it was a French territory named for Louis XIV about 100 years before the Acadians arrived. The fleur de lis was in use in New Orleans and Lousiana long before the Acadians came.
