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Date Posted: Monday, October 03, 08:04:05pm
Author: AurraSing
Author Host/IP: NoHost / 173.180.105.8
Subject: Ah, the French.
In reply to: Lij 's message, "Some old French tales of my hometown...." on Monday, October 03, 04:01:14am

I don't want to be having issues the next time I order fish, dammit!

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[> [> LOL!! -- Lij, Monday, October 03, 08:30:50pm (adsl-99-50-229-230.dsl.bltnin.sbcglobal.net/99.50.229.230)

But just from Otter Pond/Lake.

From which, btw, I have eaten bluegill.

Tasted fine to me! But that was about 200 years after this story was supposed to have happened.

Vincennes was never under the rule of the Spanish. And the St Genevieve that he talks about was a French not Spanish settlement. Although after the French lost control of most of their colonial American territory in 1763 (end of 7 years war) the Spanish took over the west bank of the Mississippi, where St Genevieve lies.

Vincennes did have a somewhat famous Italian/Spanish trader who lived in the town named Francis Vigo. There is even a statue of him (a large one) on the grounds of the George Rogers Clark National Monument in Vincennes (See Pic: JOSEPH MARIA FRANCESCO VIGO).

Vigo funded Clark's attack on Vincennes. It's interesting to wonder that if not for this man, who would later die destitute, the United States of America might have not stretched from "sea to shining sea."

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