History is not boring
It could be that I have been reading/working too long, but I found this story hilariously funny.
"On board Captain Bar's [an Englishman] vessel was a M. Second, a French engineer and a Protestant, who secretly gave M. de Bienville a petition addressed to the king, in which he assured his Majesty that if he wished to grant freedom of conscience in his colony, he would settle here more than four hundred Protestant families then living in Carolina. The petition was forwarded to M. de Pontchartrain, who answered that the king had not expelled heretics from his kingdom in order to found a republic of them."
Ohhhhhhhh. The more I think about it, the more ironic it gets. Just in case you want the citation, it's from Benard de la Harpe, Jean Baptiste, The Historical Journal of the Establishment of the French in Louisiana. Except maybe he didn't write it. ;-0
"On board Captain Bar's [an Englishman] vessel was a M. Second, a French engineer and a Protestant, who secretly gave M. de Bienville a petition addressed to the king, in which he assured his Majesty that if he wished to grant freedom of conscience in his colony, he would settle here more than four hundred Protestant families then living in Carolina. The petition was forwarded to M. de Pontchartrain, who answered that the king had not expelled heretics from his kingdom in order to found a republic of them."
Ohhhhhhhh. The more I think about it, the more ironic it gets. Just in case you want the citation, it's from Benard de la Harpe, Jean Baptiste, The Historical Journal of the Establishment of the French in Louisiana. Except maybe he didn't write it. ;-0