It had been 1704. Settlements over the Gulf Coast in Alabama, Mississippi and Louisiana had been ancient and conditions harsh.

To smooth those edges that are rough women had been brought from France to marry the colonists. The ladies, mostly penniless and recruited from orphanages and convents, had few leads in France and easily agreed to sail to your strange lands of mobile phone and Dauphin Island in hopes to become colonists’ spouses. Read more →