Re‑Constructing and Celebrating the Louisiana Purchase in New Orleans by Jean‑Pierre Le Glaunec

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"...dans le milieu de la Ville qui fait face à la place, se trouvent tous les besoins publiques..." : remarques sur la notion de centralité urbanistique en Louisiane coloniale et à... by Gilles-Antoine Langlois

“…This "place d’Armes" appears as the basis of the symmetrical grid of the town itself. After the Louisiana Purchase (1803), the place d’Armes, becoming Jackson Square in the name of the general who had defeated the British army, acquired the status of a national symbol in a rapidly growing town. …”
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Les nouvelles frontières des Jeux Anthropologiques de Saint-Louis by Fabrice Delsahut

“…Louis, the Olympic competitions were lost in the chaos of a World Fair called the Louisiana Purchase Exposition. The Olympic Games could not escape the rise in the racist ideologies of the 20th century and they contributed to the discussing of the athletic merit of the different races. …”
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