French-American culture in Missouri

city in and the county seat of Ste. Genevieve County, Missouri, United States

thumb|right|220px|The Icarian movement was inspired by an 1840 utopian novel by Étienne Cabet, Voyage en Icarie (Voyage to Icaria).

variety of French spoken in the upper Mississippi River Valley in the US

unincorporated community in Washington, St. Francois, and Jefferson counties in Missouri, Untied States

thumb|250px|Habitants, by Cornelius Krieghoff (1852) thumb|upright|A habitant in winter dress, by Frances Anne Hopkins (1858)

type of construction in which vertical, roof-bearing timbers, called posts, are in direct contact with the ground. They may be placed into excavated post holes, driven into the ground, or on sills which are set on the ground without a foundation