M. Fortier on Louisiana.

M. Alcee Fortier vice-president of the Federation de L'Alliance Francaise in the United States and a professor of Tulane University at New Orleans, yesterday afternoon lectured under the auspices of the Cercle Francais on "La Louisiane." M. Fortier reviewed in detail the history of Louisiana from the time the territory was first settled by the French up to the date of the purchase by the United States under the administration of President Jefferson. He went on to tell of the work which the Alliance Francaise is doing in the state in the cultivation of French literature and closed the lecture with the reading of extracts from the works of a few of the Louisiana poets.