Thank you very much for this interesting film! At 59:54 you hear Leroy "Happy Fats" LeBlanc on guitar and vocal and Andrus "Uncle Ambrose" Thibodeaux on fiddle play a song titled "Les Veuves de la Coulée" (The Widows of the Gully). Happy Fats was a popular French musician of the time, host of TV music show called Mariné, and a disc jockey on KXKW and KVOL radio in Lafayette, LA and KSIG radio in Crowley. This is the string band genre of Cajun music that dated back to the 1930s at a time when the accordion sort of fell out of favor at least with the record companies who were recording French music at the time. I recognize this to be filmed in Abbeville, LA where I am from. When they are playing music under an oak tree with moss they are in Magdelen Square in the town center, across the street from St. Mary Magdalen Catholic Church. In the scene with the cemetary they are in the cemetary attached to that church. I recognize some of the businesses including Schreiber's Jewelers, the Rexall pharmacy, the Bank of Abbeville, Dr. Young's office, the parish library, and the Vermilion Parish Court House. These are scenes from Abbeville's Dairy Festival, with a short appearance by its founder Roy Theriot, a local politician. At 26:40 the speaker is Dudley J. LeBlanc of Abbeville, state senator, one time state insurance commissioner and rival of Governor Huey Long, an Acadian descendant himself who did a lot to connect us with Nova Scotia. Cousain Dud (Cousin Dud) had a regular Sunday radio spot on KROF radio in Abbeville where he discussed politics in French. I wish I knew who the black French family from Abbeville are. There were a lot of them with the same French Acadian last names like LeBlanc, Broussard, Mouton, Thibodeaux, etc.
Thank you so much for bringing this to my attention Neal. It is a beautiful gift to our whole family to see our beloved Papa (Ambrose) on film - something we've never seen before! He is loved and missed and we are all filled with love and joy at this recording!
Two comments - The gentleman who spoke about Acadians happy about being able to leave prison in England for Belle-Isle-en-Mer seemed to this was great. The sad story is that that had left a feudal system 150 years before and now had to return it to become tenant farmers. No wonder the lords (sieurs) were happy ! In addition during the 50s and 60s Cajun children were punished for speaking Acadian in the schoolyards in another attempt to assimilate Acadians/Cajuns.
The Acadians came from France, mostly the western regions of France, not "prisons in england". You confuse with the history of the american anglo settlers in the bay of Boston who were ex convicts. Just as it did to form am Australian anglo population, England had a pattern to exile its convict to its colonies. Second, Le grand déménagement is a génocide perpetrated by the English that is now recorded and that they will have to amend for at some point in future history. Third Canada is a French possession even though it has been occupied by the English for a few centuries.
Passionnant. Histoire trop méconnue ... ♥
chanson et voix magnifique en fin de vidéo j'en ai les larmes aux yeux.
Ce film documentaire est véritablement passionnant.
Thank you very much for this interesting film!
At 59:54 you hear Leroy "Happy Fats" LeBlanc on guitar and vocal and Andrus "Uncle Ambrose" Thibodeaux on fiddle play a song titled "Les Veuves de la Coulée" (The Widows of the Gully). Happy Fats was a popular French musician of the time, host of TV music show called Mariné, and a disc jockey on KXKW and KVOL radio in Lafayette, LA and KSIG radio in Crowley. This is the string band genre of Cajun music that dated back to the 1930s at a time when the accordion sort of fell out of favor at least with the record companies who were recording French music at the time.
I recognize this to be filmed in Abbeville, LA where I am from. When they are playing music under an oak tree with moss they are in Magdelen Square in the town center, across the street from St. Mary Magdalen Catholic Church. In the scene with the cemetary they are in the cemetary attached to that church. I recognize some of the businesses including Schreiber's Jewelers, the Rexall pharmacy, the Bank of Abbeville, Dr. Young's office, the parish library, and the Vermilion Parish Court House. These are scenes from Abbeville's Dairy Festival, with a short appearance by its founder Roy Theriot, a local politician.
At 26:40 the speaker is Dudley J. LeBlanc of Abbeville, state senator, one time state insurance commissioner and rival of Governor Huey Long, an Acadian descendant himself who did a lot to connect us with Nova Scotia. Cousain Dud (Cousin Dud) had a regular Sunday radio spot on KROF radio in Abbeville where he discussed politics in French.
I wish I knew who the black French family from Abbeville are. There were a lot of them with the same French Acadian last names like LeBlanc, Broussard, Mouton, Thibodeaux, etc.
Thank you so much for bringing this to my attention Neal. It is a beautiful gift to our whole family to see our beloved Papa (Ambrose) on film - something we've never seen before! He is loved and missed and we are all filled with love and joy at this recording!
Admirables. Plus Français que la France actuelle.
Édith Butler
Au début? J'étais pas sûr!
Les barricades mystérieuses de François Couperin à 16:20 min..❤
Y los subtitulos?
Estaria bien que agregaran los subtitulos
Two comments - The gentleman who spoke about Acadians happy about being able to leave prison in England for Belle-Isle-en-Mer seemed to this was great. The sad story is that that had left a feudal system 150 years before and now had to return it to become tenant farmers. No wonder the lords (sieurs) were happy !
In addition during the 50s and 60s Cajun children were punished for speaking Acadian in the schoolyards in another attempt to assimilate Acadians/Cajuns.
The Acadians came from France, mostly the western regions of France, not "prisons in england". You confuse with the history of the american anglo settlers in the bay of Boston who were ex convicts. Just as it did to form am Australian anglo population, England had a pattern to exile its convict to its colonies.
Second, Le grand déménagement is a génocide perpetrated by the English that is now recorded and that they will have to amend for at some point in future history.
Third Canada is a French possession even though it has been occupied by the English for a few centuries.
Pauvre Madame Brousseault (à la min 42' ) haha.
Personne n'a écouté sa chanson et son accordéon !
J'ai aussi ressenti beaucoup de sympathie et de tendresse pour elle.
On est des gens dla mer...dla terre imaginer si on aurait pas été déporté on nen parlerai même pas
Ben non parce que ça aurait pas arrivé comment veux tu en parler
Histoire de l’Acadie racontée par des québécois ?!