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Copy of a genealogy and family history book titled, “Auzenne, Donato, Frilot, Lemelle, Meullion” by Conrad A. Auzenne. Special copy located the university of Louisiana at Lafayette at the Edith garland dupre library.
A screenshot of a page from the book mentioning the Meullion, Lemelle, Donato, and Auzenne families.
Photo of Rev. Donald Hebert’s Southwest Louisiana Records books showing Valerien Auzenne, my 5x Pawpaw as a Free Mulatto of Pointe Coupée.
To help the exhibit’s impact, St. Landry Parish residents donated photos, artifacts, and their family stories.
Prominent FPOC in St. Landry Parish descended from the Donatos, Lemelles, Ozennes, Meullions, and other Creole families.
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Although a small and quaint building, the museum is filled with timeless Louisiana Creole and Louisiana history and artifacts.
Visitors quickly learn how important Opelousas was and still is to Louisiana.
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Growing up, Fox remembers her grandmother peculiarly intertwining Louisiana French into her upbringing.
Fox felt the ancestral urge to implement Kouri-Vini and Louisiana French into the museum.
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