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If the husband be a slave and the wife a free woman, the children shall be free like their mother. If the husband be free and the wife a slave, the children shall be slaves.

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This law forbids slaves belonging to different masters to assemble in crowds…. Any slave who shall have struck his master, his mistress, or the husband of his mistress, or their children, so as to produce a bruise or shedding of blood in the face, shall be put to death.

Louisiana was then a possession of France

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[This law] forbids the exercise of any other religion than the Catholic…. all Jews who may have established their religion there [shall] be expelled within three months, under penalty of confiscation of body and property

Louisiana was then a possession of France

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Louis XV

Born: February 15, 1710
Died: May 10, 1774
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Louis XV, known as Louis the Beloved (French: le Bien-Aimé), was King of France from 1 September 1715 until his death in 1774. He succeeded his great-grandfather Louis XIV at the age of five. Until he reached maturity (then defined as his 13th birthday) on 15 February 1723, the kingdom was ruled by Philippe II, Duke of Orléans, as Regent of France. Cardinal Fleury was chief minister from 1726 until his death in 1743, at which time the king took sole control of the kingdom.

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