Gov. Jeff Landry: "French makes Louisiana unique. We must double down to ensure we don't lose it."
This exclusive full interview with the 57th Governor of the State of Louisiana, Jeff Landry of St. Martin Parish, aired in the season finale of #LaVeillée on Louisiana Public Broadcasting.
For the first time in a public setting, he discusses in depth his relationship to the French language, his Cajun roots, and his policy views on legislation to revitalize our heritage language.
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Cette interview exclusive avec le 57e gouverneur de l'État de Louisiane, Jeff Landry de la paroisse de St. Martin, a été diffusée lors de la finale de la saison de #LaVeilléeSurLPB.
Pour la première fois dans un lieu public, il discute en profondeur de sa relation avec la langue française, de ses racines cadiennes et de ses opinions politiques sur la législation visant à revitaliser notre langue d'héritage.
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Managing Editor and Executive Producer: Will McGrew
Camera: Drake LeBlanc, Ethan Castille
Producer: Caitlin Orgeron
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A Second Louisiana French Renaissance? | La Veillée
After decades of Louisiana French being formally banned in public education, 1968 marked a turning point in our State's history as laws were passed for the first time to promote French in education and culture. Over 50 years later, there has been a new resurgence of Louisiana French in recent years in education, music, politics, and media, including the launch of La Veillée on LPB in 2022.
Do these developments constitute a second Louisiana French Renaissance? We explore what these initiatives mean for the future of Louisiana French in our season 2 finale with two francophone legislators, Senator Jeremy Stine and Representative Dewith Carrier. And in an exclusive interview with Governor Jeff Landry, we discuss what French means to him and how his administration plans to support the revitalization movement.
Hosts: Drake LeBlanc, Will McGrew, Caitlin Orgeron
Managing Editor and Executive Producer: Will McGrew
Editor: Bradley Gueho
Camera: Drake LeBlanc, Ethan Castille, Eric Breaux
Producer: Caitlin Orgeron
LPB Executive Producer: Linda Midgett
LPB Editor: Chris LeCoq
LPB Producer: Deirdre Peterson
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Soutien à mes amis francophones de Louisiane. Expatrié français à Seattle, WA et prof de français!
@freshface2991
23 күн бұрын
Quelle coïncidence! J’ai resté dans un Airbnb à Seattle et certains voisins étaient expatriés français. Ils enseignaient le français aux states.
@johngore7744
14 күн бұрын
Salut Je suis un Anglophone Quebecois. C’est toujours un plaisir du l’utilize mon Francais. Cheers from Montreal
I hope the state renews the French language as well as the Indigenous languages of the area
@foragingfleur
14 күн бұрын
J’espère la même chose pour la Louisiane. Le français acadien/cajun est une belle vielle langue pour l’état aux États Unis ⚜️
I’m no Landry fan, but I’m 100% behind this. Vive le Français dans la Louisiane!
Soutien total depuis le Québec !
@johngore7744
14 күн бұрын
Support aussi par la communite Anglophone Quebecois(e) Ne a Montreal en 1961 encore ici parce que j’adore Le Quebec. Je fier de vient d’un place unique en Amerique du Nord. Il y a plusiers Anglo avec les meme sentiments. Cheers mon ami d’un Queblokois lol de Montreal. Excuse mon Francais mal ecrit. 😎
Longue vie à Télé Louisiane ! Vos ancêtres seraient fiers de voir que vous n'oubliez pas qui vous êtes et d’où vous venez. Bravo !
Vive la Louisiane et vive la France !! Continuez vos vidéos, nous en avons besoin.
Bravo la Louisiane!
Bravo au Gouverneur Landry de la Paroisse de St Martin pour ses efforts en vue de promouvoir la culture et la langue française en Louisiane. Je me souviens que mon père connaissait plusieurs Louisianais quand il travaillait comme mécanicien dans la base aérienne américaine de l'OTAN près de Metz (France), avant 1966. Et tous ces collègues américains parlaient le français comme père et mère. Vive la Louisiane.🥰
Total soutien et affection sincère à nos cousins valeureux👋🇨🇵🇨🇵🇨🇵
Bravo La Louisiane 🎉❤Vive la francophonie
Louisiana has my support in renewing its French language and growing its usage across the State.
La meilleure façon d’enseigner une langue: immersion totale à l’école maternelle, puis enseignement bilingue à l’école élémentaire et au collège.
I’m going to Nice France in order to help bridge the gap for New Orleans and France… would love to discuss it further…
@alexandrelagiere2542
28 күн бұрын
Nice isn’t really France. It’s a sort of « Fascistan » for old people… 😢
@EmsiYTs
28 күн бұрын
I think the sybolic thing to do would be to go to Orléans, the old one.
@sgt.mcgillicuddy2948
27 күн бұрын
You’re going serving some official capacity? Or just taking a personal trip? Because if there are any orgs that are dedicated to bridging that gap I wanna hear about that
@LabeaudLLC
27 күн бұрын
@@EmsiYTs I chose Nice because it’s more affordable. Until I get funding, it’s the most cost effective decision.
@LabeaudLLC
27 күн бұрын
@@sgt.mcgillicuddy2948 I’m on official business and there are TONS of orgs I never knew about! We can chat about it if you’d like.
Bravo aux cousins de Louisiane!
We really need to recreate New France through some kind of bond between Quebec and Louisiana
@D0GGy333
25 күн бұрын
Exactement, ça viendra
They should make Louisiana bilingual like New Brunswick, Canada. Mandatory French in school along with English.
Une pensée pour vous, de France.
Imagine France reunited with Louisiana
Une superbe entrevue. Salutations du New Hampshire !
Soutien total depuis la France !
il faut aussi investir dans l'enseignement de la langue française aux lycées et á l'écoles (surtout l'école primaire)...á mon avis, le plus tôt sera le mieux.
Bravo et merci pour une interview très utile et informative! Continuez car vous avez notre soutien!
Bonjour lointains Louisianais, j'espère un jour venir dans votre état afin de découvrir nos similarités culturelles. Amitiés
Two things: 1) yes, Louisiana is going to need to be more progressive in its values to be attractive in terms of establishing stronger bonds between the people of French-speaking Canada (such as Quebec) and France and 2) a huge swath of la Francophonie is of African descent (from Haiti to the nations of west Africa) and so again being open and tolerant is also an additional factor in establishing stronger bonds with other French-speaking peoples in the 21st century
Je suis un français qui va justement passer ses vacances en Louisiane, vive la Louisiane!!
@cadiencanaille4387
22 күн бұрын
Je suis un louisianais qui va passer ses vacances en France. Vive l’amitié Franco-louisianais!
Soutien à nos cousins de la Louisianne. Gros bisous de Paris❤
J'adore le français
Louisiana is by far the richest state in culture and in climate. Too bad it's one of the poorest. And don't forget the Isleños (Spanish speakers descents of Spanish colonists).
@Yoora_Miller
9 күн бұрын
Are you kabyle?
@lemondenaturel8399
8 күн бұрын
I am half-Isleño and half Western North African Jewish.@Yoora_Miller
@Yoora_Miller
8 күн бұрын
@@lemondenaturel8399 fascinating, am half Irish-ish half kabyle from north-west Africa (Algeria to be precise). Unfortunately, i never encountered north Africans where i live (SC), so, noticing a north African jew is really rare and fascinating to me
@lemondenaturel8399
7 күн бұрын
@Yoora_Miller My dad's side is from northwestern Algeria 🇩🇿. To be precise, the city of Oran. We also have family that came from Morocco 🇲🇦.
this was a super interesting interview! i’m from the UK and i’ve been learning french and i’ve just fallen in love with all francophone cultures. it’s amazing what you guys are doing to preserve the french language in louisiana. i wouldn’t say that my politics majorly align with louisiana typically but it’s amazing to see the work down there from all sides of the aisle because i think it truly is one of the most incredible languages in the world with such a deep history and it would be awful to lose such an important part of it!
Le gouverneur de Louisiane ! Chapeau jeunes gens !
Bonjour depuis la France, merci de faire vivre la langue a travers le monde, meme si les Acadiens ne sont pas assez mis en avant dans l'univers Francophone
Bonjour à vous tous.. Rien n'est impossible avec la volonté !..
bravo
Bonjour du Québec!
Les peuples premiers ont-ils aussi la possibilité d'étudier dans la langue de leurs ancêtres ?
⚜️ Toronto
French Polynesia to the Ivory Coast, French is a major language today.
@Sikhou999
20 күн бұрын
No, it isn't. 😂
@russellnolan9212
20 күн бұрын
@@Sikhou999 top five ( or four; tied with Arabic)
VIVE LA LOUISIANE!!!
Conseils de mon avis pour y protéger la langue - écoles disponibles français/anglais/creole - comme Québec, obligatoire pour les restos/magasins d’avoir un nom français (café Starbucks, etc) - ajouter le français / créole aux panneaux comme Irlande/irlandais - encourager les francophones à y déménager - plus des émissions télé et nouvelles disponible en français /creole - vol direct Airfrance à destination de Paris (Montréal existe déjà) - changez le drapeau à qqch plus significatif Pour dépenser de l’argent sur les choses préventifs, on va voir un effet à long terme génial et de grande valeur
Hello from Fort Worth
I love Jeff Landry. To me he sounds like Cajun Saul Goodman.
Je suis content qu’un gouverneur conservateur (républicain chez vous ) anti avortement , chrétien, soit attaché à défendre la culture et la langue de ses racines , de NOS racines communes : la France , royale et catholique toujours bien sûr ⚜️
We also share culture with the Isleños (Spanish speakers). #Neverforget.
J’aime Gov Landry!
@nicholasholiday941
27 күн бұрын
Moi, je le deteste.
La Louisiane est un nom sans commune mesure mes sinceres salutations au Gouverneur de cet Etat des Etats Unis d'Amerique
There’s a lot of beating around the bush, but the essential fact is that French in Louisiana has lost its traction, French-speaking people being assimilated fairly fast. Had the interview had taken place in French, as “Cajun-ish“ as it can be, I would have thought there would be some hope. Une langue perdue est un monde disparu…
@Reazzurro90
27 күн бұрын
The governor doesn't speak French well enough for him to be interviewed in French. He made it clear. That has nothing to do with whether policies are implemented to reinvigorate a language .
@abcMW1989
26 күн бұрын
@Reazzurro90 It's a valid argument on the surface that the governor doesn't speak French. Yet, although he is of French ancestry in a formerly French-speaking area, he wasn't able to carry the conversation in French for different reasons. Where do those reasons point? It is the case with many minority languages across the world.
@Reazzurro90
26 күн бұрын
@@abcMW1989 what are you trying to say?
@abcMW1989
26 күн бұрын
@Reazzurro90 That linguistic diversity can not be taken for granted, and it is extremely difficult to maintain without solid state policies.
@edmerc92
26 күн бұрын
@@abcMW1989The governor doesn’t claim to be French-speaking himself, but supports efforts to boost the language. You’re making it about him when he’s not trying to.
He totally avoided the question about primitive beliefs in LA regarding abortion, religion, and other social issues. Shameful. Too bad the interviewer did not press him on it (though he is quite handsome--nice hair 🙂).
À bas Landry
Oh please, the schools in Louisiana should focus on teaching children to speak proper English before they start trying to teach them a whole new language
@D0GGy333
17 күн бұрын
Non, on s'en fiche, il n'y a pas de langue officielle dans ce pays.
@KruegerChild1428
16 күн бұрын
There's no reason they can't do both. Children are most receptive to language so it's best to get them learning early. Just because the population has largely assimilated into the English majority (you can Google how that was accomplished and how quickly) doesn't make French a whole new language. Je suis fier de ma deuxième langue.
La Louisianisation c’est inévitable. Les jeunes vont jamais utiliser la langue comme leur anciens ont l'utiliser. Toujours plus en plus loin dans le passé. Le Québec est l’avenir du français en Amérique du Nord
@KruegerChild1428
16 күн бұрын
C'est la vérité triste
Louisiana is no longer French. What culture has it got in common with France? Only a few % of Louisiana people can speak French. So it's American culture not French. Why is the interview done in English?...
@D0GGy333
27 күн бұрын
Tais toi, ton pays n'existe pas sans la France.
@nicholasholiday941
27 күн бұрын
Still, it's more French than any other state and it is worth preserving.
@darinboue8686
27 күн бұрын
Of course, Louisiana is no longer French . It is American. But South Louisiana has vestiges of the French influence that is unique to it. The cuisine, the music, the accent. It is different . WHen you come down here you will notice it. It is not north Louisiana. That is the French legacy that caused that. That is what we are trying to preserve. So that New Orleans does not become just like Shreveport or Lafayette, Louisiana does not turn into Lafayette, Indiana. If you don't know that I mean by that, then you have never been to South Lousiana.
@ommsterlitz1805
27 күн бұрын
USA don't have an official language and american culture isn't a thing only states have culture of their own. If Louisiana wants to work, study and speaks in French in majority it's their rights to do so for their cultural heritage, same thing for Maine, Missouri, Illinois etc...
@sgt.mcgillicuddy2948
27 күн бұрын
Because nobody here knows French anymore. Hence the entire interview being about how to preserve and promote it… Also in many ways this is the least American place in America