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Download or read book The French Lost Colony of North Carolina written by Dudley Marchi and published by . This book was released on 2020-03-24 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is a subtle but significant French heritage in North Carolina. Towns such as Bath, Beaufort, New Bern, and La Grange are a testimony to French settlers in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. The city of Fayetteville is named after the Marquis de Lafayette, a French ally during the American Revolution. The first European explorers to the North Carolina region were, in fact, French (1524). French Huguenots migrated to the state as early as 1690, and many North Carolinians have family names of French origin. North Carolina has many other remnants of French presence. This study traces the French heritage in NC from its origins to the present and tells the story of a little-known but important part of NC's cultural history. "La Colonie perdue" is one of these fascinating stories that takes place in and around New Bern.