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At least half the Acadian population died during what they still call "Le Grand Dérangement" (The Great Exile), from smallpox, typhus or starvation. But from 1764, 3,000 Acadians made their home in the hot and barely populated prairies and wetlands of south-west Louisiana. The clan had adapted once; now they would adapt again.
