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| South America & Caribbean:Previous Hispanola: 1750 s Mulattoes called faux blancs or blanchets have gained a level of prosperity in the 1750 s that is unusual in the Caribbean Basin. Some have become plantation owners in coffee growing areas of the mountainous West and South Provinces of Saint Domingue. Next. | |||||||||||
| North America:Georgetown founded on the Potomac River. Benjamin Franklin flys a kite and begins work on a lightning rod. Whaling is a major industry in New England. George Washington visits Barbados at 19. | |||||||||||
| Europe: A French Encyclopedie is begun with Denis Diderot as editor. He does not want to merely translate the 1728 English Cyclopedia so he inlists the help of other French intellectuals such as Montesquieu. Painting by Francois Boucher, Hogarth; fiction by Henry Fielding; poetry by Thomas Gray. | |||||||||||
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| Regulations in 1751 allow six taverns in New Orleans to sell wine and spirits, but prohibits soldiers, Indians and blacks from buying them.. They could not sell on Sundays during holy services and had to close by 9PM. | Ignace Broutin dies and is replaced as Chief Engineer by Bernard de Deverges. Deverges arrived in 1720 as de la Tours' draftsman but had spent most of his time at the Balise. | Parlange Plantation house is built by the Marquis Vincent de Ternant in the early 1750s on a land grant he received from the French crown near False River in Pointe Coupee Parish. He first plants indigo and then adds to his fortunes with sugar. He dies in 1757. His son Claude manages the plantation until his death in 1842. Claude’s second wife Virginie Trahan takes over the plantation, saves it from destruction and plunder during the Civil War and later on one of her frequent visits to Paris, takes a second husband, Colonel Charles Parlange of the French Army. Virginie is survived by a son from this second marriage who struggles with the Reconstruction Era economy and rises to become a Justice of the Louisiana Supreme Court. His son, Walter Charles Parlange returns with his young bride to the abandoned plantation after the first World War and restores the house. |
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