Old Louisiana Plantation Homes and Family Trees vols. 1 & 2

“it was not as is so often stated by writers unfamiliar with the aristocratic class of Louisiana, ‘that it was the great plantations and sale of large crops of sugar and cotton during the Golden Era that made the Louisiana planter an aristocrat,’ but it was the plantations that proved a means of permitting the born aristocrats to live as their families before them had lived in their former homes in Europe.”History of the state's families and homes, originally published in 1941.