Groups Sponsor Mock Trial of Louisiana Purchase

The Advertiser reports that the Francophone Section of the Louisiana State Bar Association, the Council for the Development of French in Louisiana and the Judge Allen M. Bandeaux International Civil Law Symposium will be sponsoring a mock trial, to be conducted in French, beginning this Friday.

The mock trial, which will include re-enactors in period dress, will . . . touch on questions of whether the sale of the 828,000 square miles of land to the United States in 1803 for $15 million — called “the greatest real estate deal in history” — was even legal.

Posted by AJR at April 24, 2003 10:45 AM