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VERY OT: I'm going to Paris very soon, is there anything "Moorish" to see there?
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[QUOTE]Originally posted by H*O*R*I*Z*O*N^*^H*O*R*U*S: [QB] [QUOTE]Originally posted by alTakruri: [qb] While I can't make a contribution as relevant as Honi B's, I will say that Africana is robust enough to include a little about France. So, if you will, indulge me. Charles Martel kept the Moors a good 140 miles away from Paris by defeating them at Tours. But by 1610 Henry IV had invited perhaps a million Moors to settle in the south of France after the expulsion from the Iberian peninsula. Auvergnese was the most heavily Moorish populated place in France. Some Frenchmen reported to be of this stock are Bertrand du Guesclin Joachim Murat Jean-Baptiste Bernadotte Pierre Laval Surprisingly, Louis XIV refused to exchange the Barbary corsairs in his hold for those French captives Mulai Ismael offered in their stead. What may also not be so well known is that France did have major slave trade entrepot at the port of Nantes. This eventually made a problem in Paris from mulato foundlings of both black and white mothers numbering nearly 1,500. It was big enough a problem that Louis XV hit on a plan to expel all the blacks to Cayenne. From 1685 - 1820 marriages of blacks and whites was illegal in France as a spillover effect of Haiti's Code Noir. Josephine had Napoleon rescind the law so that one of her black servants could marry a white girl. Despite whatever effect the Cayenne expulsion had there were enough in France in Murat's time that one of his regiments was all black except for some Greeks and Neapolitans of the same colour as per[b] A. G. Cheney[/b][i] Negro Soldiers in Murat's Army[/i] New Service v169: London, 1913 Besides General Alexander Dumas commander of the cavalry, Napoleon supposedly had up to eleven more other generals of inner African descent. Napoleon's hundreds of black officers turned against him when he re-instated slavery in Haiti. France had the usual complaints whites make about "their negroes." Too much money, sportin' pimped out limos, white maids and butlers. And of course, ahem, Y wimmens. "There will soon be no other than mulattoe in France!" (A. Aulard, Paris sous le Consulat) [/qb][/QUOTE]Thanks mate :) . I think I'm going to visit [URL=http://www.isango.com/ViewProductDetails.aspx?ServiceID=2803#]here[/URL] now. I've always wanted to go there but something else always took priority... [QUOTE] The Palace of Versailles is famous across the world for its grandeur and draws tourists from far and wide who come to explore its lavish interiors and formal gardens. [b]Built by Louis the XIV...[/b] [/QUOTE]I'm only going for a weekend, so the Paris Mosque and Palace of Versailles should do the trick. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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