Q135 Quizmail

[marje]

Does anyone know the answer to this one?  Can't find any reference to Saint Louise Du Pont.  Most frustrating.

[jamie_patric]

i think its senegal

[marje]

Thanks jamie_patric, I think I would've plumped for this answer myself as I couldn't find anything else appropriate.

[silly moo]

Just searched some more and found that the state of Louisiana was named after Louis XIV.
Following taken from Wikipedia

The first European explorers to visit what is now Louisiana was a Spanish expedition in 1528 led by Panfilo de Narv�ez which located the mouth of the Mississippi River. Some 13 years later Hernando de Soto's expedition crossed through the region. Thereafter the region was long neglected by the Spanish authorities, and the next explorers were French. Louisiana was named by the French explorer Robert Cavelier de La Salle in honour of Louis XIV in 1682. The first permanent settlement was founded by Pierre Le Moyne d'Iberville in 1699.