If you had to build a country, a state, or even a city, who would you want to populate that town? If you didn't immeadiately answer "hookers, felons, and orphans", then you wouldn't have really succeeded in 1700's French government. In this weeks episode, Mike and Dylan talk about that time that France let their convicted criminals out of jail, married them, and shipped them out to Louisiana!

Sources cited
https://www.wwno.org/post/founding-new-orleans-vagabond-city
https://www.jocelyngreen.com/index.php?q=2017/01/09/louisiana-and-france’s-forced-colonization-experiment

https://www.jstor.org/stable/4230908?read-now=1&seq=14#page_scan_tab_contents
https://historycollection.co/parisian-prisoners-offered-freedom-agreed-marry-prostitutes-move-mississippi-coast/2/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Law_(economist)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_of_the_Spanish_Succession
https://www.neworleansbar.org/uploads/files/DuelofLaw.9-7.pdf