Linguistic Practices of the Catholic Church
by
Sylvie DuBois, Emilie Gagnet Leumas, Malcolm Richardson
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2018
Over the course of its three-hundred-year history, the Catholic Church in Louisiana witnessed a prolonged shift from French to English, with some south Louisiana churches continuing to prepare marriage, baptism, and burial records in French as late as the mid-twentieth century. Speaking French in...