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• Bourgeois clan to recognize its historical land 
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• Genealogy program set at Nicholls
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Bourgeois clan to recognize 
its historical land

By VICKI FERSTEL, The Advocate

  
"Jean Bourgeois arrived in Louisiana in 1765 among the first wave of French Catholic refugees expelled by the British from Acadie, or Nova Scotia."

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