http://worldcat.org/entity/work/id/797314645

Brothels, depravity, and abandoned women illegal sex in antebellum New Orleans

When a priest suggested to one of the first governors of Louisiana that he banish all disreputable women to raise the colony's moral tone, the governor responded, "If I send away all the loose females, there will be no women left here at all." Primitive, mosquito infested, and disease ridden, early French colonial New Orleans offered few attractions to entice respectable women as residents. King Louis XIV of France solved the population problem in 1721 by emptying Paris's La Salptrire prison of many of its most notorious prostitutes and convicts and sending them to Louisiana. Many of these w.

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