@tu_voley_fvv: Actually insane this is true - In 1719, France was struggling to populate its Louisiana colony, which stretched across a much larger area than the modern state. Under financier John Law and the Mississippi Company, prisoners were deported from Paris and encouraged to marry women recruited from hospitals and correctional institutions before being transported across the Atlantic. Some accounts describe freedom being offered in exchange for marriage and relocation, though the broader program involved coercion and forced removal rather than a simple voluntary deal. The plan was meant to rapidly create families, workers, and permanent settlements in the colony, but many newcomers faced disease, food shortages, and harsh living conditions after arriving. France eventually restricted the deportation program following complaints about the settlers being sent, but the episode remains one of the stranger chapters in Louisiana’s colonial history.

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