VILLE PLATTE, La.— By 8:30 Saturday morning, the red-brick tavern called Fred's Lounge is already filled with rice farmers, bikers from New Orleans and wide-eyed French tourists ready to party. Some ...
Every Thursday evening, a group of about 10 students gathers at Houma's Bayou Terrebonne Waterlife Museum with workbooks and hefty language dictionaries. They practice speaking to each other in local ...
BATON ROUGE — Need to brush up on your Cajun French before a trip to Acadiana? There's no better source than "A Dictionary of the Cajun Language" by the late Rev. Jules O. Daigle, and there's no ...
Robert LeBlanc spoke Cajun French as if his life depended on it, because it did. LeBlanc, 94, served the U.S. military in World War II as a member of the Office of Strategic Services (OSS), a ...