By looking carefully, you always end up making comparisons.
This been a while since the Nord-Pas-de-Calais-Louisiana connection we trotted to the head and we are enjoying this long weekend for us to linger; extended weekend thanks to Martin Luther King, the thing is quite rare to be stressed, was a holiday just for him.
We start our comparison by historical and territorial aspects.
And first of all, Louis XIV.
August 28, 1667, after a siege of 10 days, Louis XIV between the city of Lille and receives the keys of the city. A year later, the Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle, Lille became French. Louis XIV shows some interest for the city and ordered the architect Simon Vollant building outside Paris that was built from 1685 to 1692, in memory of the attachment of Lille in France.
As for Louisiana, it became French April 9, 1682: this French-Canadian explorer René Robert Cavalier de la Salle, mandated by the same Louis XIV, and down the Mississippi, arrived in the Gulf Mexico, named the territory traversed the same time he takes up the nose and beard of the English.
Hence the second point in common: the English presence and its impact on regional architecture: earthenware and painted stucco. In Lille, it is the old stock exchange, built in 1652.
New Orleans, past the English from 1762 to 1800, was destroyed twice by fire in 1788 and 1794. It was rebuilt in brick, with stucco and wrought iron balconies.
The streets still bear the china plates in English.
Third historical legacy: the cool stuff that pulls pollutants from the basement. The
heaps on one side,
refineries another
and of course we had Deepwater Horizon!
We start our comparison by historical and territorial aspects. And first of all, Louis XIV.
August 28, 1667, after a siege of 10 days, Louis XIV between the city of Lille and receives the keys of the city. A year later, the Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle, Lille became French. Louis XIV shows some interest for the city and ordered the architect Simon Vollant building outside Paris that was built from 1685 to 1692, in memory of the attachment of Lille in France.
As for Louisiana, it became French April 9, 1682: this French-Canadian explorer René Robert Cavalier de la Salle, mandated by the same Louis XIV, and down the Mississippi, arrived in the Gulf Mexico, named the territory traversed the same time he takes up the nose and beard of the English. 
Hence the second point in common: the English presence and its impact on regional architecture: earthenware and painted stucco. In Lille, it is the old stock exchange, built in 1652. 
New Orleans, past the English from 1762 to 1800, was destroyed twice by fire in 1788 and 1794. It was rebuilt in brick, with stucco and wrought iron balconies.
The streets still bear the china plates in English.
Third historical legacy: the cool stuff that pulls pollutants from the basement. The heaps on one side,
refineries another
and of course we had Deepwater Horizon!
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