Tate Cove Bathtub Mary

Ramp Mary

The Eyes of Our Lady 2 Winter

http://prairiedesfemmes.blogspot.com/2013/05/the-eyes-of-our-lady.html

Our Lady of Serenity

 

http://prairiedesfemmes.blogspot.com/2013/05/an-exercise-in-serenity.html

Gumbo de Familles de Haut de Bayou Teche

Found

In Arnaudville 

Indian Women Plant Corn in the Prairie des Femmes

Prairie des Femmes Brick Wall

Prairie des Femmes Map

Summer 2003 Journal Pages

Rabalis Memes

Awesome Louisiana French memes created and submitted by Nathan Rabalais.

It's Saturday night, dear, "shall we" (raccoon) dance?

Preach!

Shut ya mouth you can't speak the good French like me

Me, I know you always gonna listen to the advice of others...

Parrain, I am afraid of monsters. Mais, you don't have to be, dear. You just have to run fast and don't tell them that I am your parrain.

This guy right here farted, yall! Really, I farted.

Chaoui don't like it...

Bruh... I think I just seen a monsta!

Hey fellow, you know what a cayouene is in my parish?

You just simply can't run to Mordor!

Why you dropped the potato!?

I went drop off the kids at the game and not I can run the roads in my suburban and make trouble.

 Born in Eunice, Louisiana, Nathan Rabalais received his B.A. in music from the University of Louisiana at Lafayette in 2007 and pursued graduate studies in musicology at the University of Strasbourg. He obtained an M.A. in French at UL Lafayette, specializing in Louisiana language and culture and North American Francophone literature.  Currently, his main research interests include Louisiana French dialects, oral tradition and music of South Louisiana. More recent research topics and projects include popular and community theater among Francophone minorities, adult literacy for native Cajun French speakers and dialect pedagogy. In other words, Nathan Rabbalais is a pretty righteous dude.

Fact: I am faster than 80% of snakes. Rabalais class memes!!

I feel pretty confident in the future of Louisiana French language and humor after seeing these memes des etudiants de Monsieur Rabalais. Merci, y'all!

Fact: I am faster than 80% of snakes.

I know this feeling, me.

I am not a chat-oui (raccoon) I am a chat-non!

I met a guy in Lafayette. He told me You're a pretty doll! (prostitute)

One can not simply pass through the back door.

I am not crazy! Look! I carved your name on my arm!

Let that bouillie custard fall on the floor!

The snap-beans aren't salty.

I will never let you go. (Lache pas la patate Jacques et Rose!)

Many thanks to Nathan Rabalais and his Cajun French students at Tulane in New Orleans for creating and submitting these hilarious memes to the Prairie des Femmes!


 Born in Eunice, Louisiana, Nathan Rabalais received his B.A. in music from the University of Louisiana at Lafayette in 2007 and pursued graduate studies in musicology at the University of Strasbourg. He obtained an M.A. in French at UL Lafayette, specializing in Louisiana language and culture and North American Francophone literature.  Currently, his main research interests include Louisiana French dialects, oral tradition and music of South Louisiana. More recent research topics and projects include popular and community theater among Francophone minorities, adult literacy for native Cajun French speakers and dialect pedagogy. In other words, Nathan Rabbalais is a pretty righteous dude.

Traditional Ecards of Coastal Louisiana

Lomax Fellow and friend Dr. Joshua Caffery released his fascinating book, Traditional Music in Coastal Louisiana recently. There were so many amazing songs and one-liners that Dr. Caff includes in this book. Here are a few of my favorites, done in Ecard, Prairie des Femmes fashion. Thank you Dr. Caff!! 

Buy this book:

http://lsupress.org/books/detail/traditional-music-in-coastal-louisiana/

Louisiana French ECards from Traditional Music in Coastal Louisiana by Joshua Caffery

The next morning, after the wedding, the beauty looks at the door. The beautiful girl looks at the door, with a big regret.

I am going to the big woods with my jug of moonshine, brass knuckles in my pocket, cards in my hand, and I am looking for nothin but trouble.

Criminal Criminal! The Cajuns of L'anse la Butte have torn up underpants.

Go away sadness! Go throw yourself in the coulee and go so far, never come back to me again!

The beautifyl girl gave me a beautiful bouquet, all garnished with beautiful white jasmine. It's to heal, heal, heal sadness.

Oh wild nightingale! Oh nightingale of the forest!

Let's drink, dear comrades, Let's abandon amour. Let's abandon girls, we'll court them no more.

Oh, he fell in the road, like an unlucky one.

A bouquet of thoughts, at the four corners of the bed. A bouquet of worry.

He said that he wanted to play until he didn't have any more shoes.

Click here to see a few more memes I did from the book.