Le "Couloir Créole" et les Antilles Françaises

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Across
  1. 3. Large indigenous city located across the Mississippi River from St-Louis that had been thriving for hundreds of years before the French arrived
  2. 5. Famous café in NOLA known for great coffee and beignets and whose name reflects the open and mixed spirit of its city!
  3. 6. Last name of chocolatier who brought Parisian chocolate making to St-Louis!
  4. 10. First and last name of New Orleans’ “Queen of Voodoo”
  5. 11. Name for the Acadiens who came to Louisiana; also references their food and hot sauce!
  6. 13. Young children in Haïti who are placed as domestic servants in more prosperous families
  7. 15. French building technique in which the logs are placed in the ground in a vertical fashion (unlike most other American log cabins that used horizontal log construction techniques)
  8. 16. Meaning “Rive Gauche” in Paris
  9. 18. Name of famous Haitian former slave and general who led a successful slave revolt
  10. 19. St-Louis neighbourhood where Mardi Gras is popularly celebrated today
  11. 20. “Washboard” metal instrument, often played with a spoon
  12. 22. Patron Saint of Paris; name of French Missouri settlement downstream from St-Louis
  13. 23. Nickname for the many children from around the world adopted by Josephine Baker
Down
  1. 1. Kind of popular music in Louisiana; takes its name from a song: Les haricots sont pas salés
  2. 2. Slaves who escaped plantation work and lived with Indigenous peoples
  3. 4. French man who is known as the founder of St-Louis
  4. 7. Name of large African-American neighbourhood in Nouvelle Orléans
  5. 8. “Let the Good Times Roll”
  6. 9. Nickname for St-Louis, meaning that it was a city with insufficient food, often short of bread
  7. 12. French/ Francophone corridor/ water passageway in North America
  8. 14. Special Mardi Gras cake with a little baby in it that brings good luck and determines who will host the next Carnival party
  9. 17. Term used to denominate a group of people of mixed ethnic origin; sometimes refers to people born in Louisiana; or sometimes refers to those who speak French language or dialects of French
  10. 21. Headscarf worn by women in Louisiana; after 1786, worn by women of color, according to Spanish law