Madame Langlois' Legacy

As you prepare your next batch of cornbread, or steaming pot of gumbo, or even a fancy supper of grillades and grits, say a small thanksgiving prayer for Madame Langlois, Governor Bienville's many talented "housekeeper and cook". There is a legend that twenty-three young women were dispatched to the new colony to provide wives for the settlers. Finding only some queer looking sea creatures and game along with a few ears of Indian maize, they quickly rebelled at these poor victuals and threatened