Abstracts
Résumé
Dans les trois premières décennies du XIXe siècle, les colons américains sont de plus en plus nombreux à habiter l’ancien Pays des Illinois. Malgré les changements politiques, économiques et judiciaires que cela engendre, plusieurs caractéristiques de la vie socioculturelle des habitants blancs francophones qui peuplent la région depuis le XVIIIe siècle demeurent intactes, car ces derniers constituent toujours une partie importante de la population. Ainsi, leurs moeurs traditionnelles, telles que l’esprit de solidarité et de collaboration, la stabilité de la famille et la ségrégation culturelle, imprègnent grandement la sociabilité qui règne dans l’univers festif des bals de leur carnaval.
Abstract
American settlers were coming in great numbers into the former Illinois Country during the first three decades of the 19th Century. They quickly modified the political, economical and judicial systems that the local white French-speaking inhabitants were used to since the 18th Century. However, these inhabitants were still a significant part of the population and therefore were successful in preserving several characteristics of their social life and culture. Their traditional mores, such as the spirit of solidarity and collaboration, family stability and cultural segregation, greatly permeated the sociability that reigned in the festive environment of their carnival’s balls.