SLU may bid French studies adieu due to budget cuts - John Pope, The Times-Picayune

French may have been the language of Louisiana's founders and the mother tongue of such renowned authors, thinkers and performers as Victor Hugo, Emile Zola, Simone de Beauvoir and Edith Piaf, but that glorious linguistic heritage didn't count for much last week in the budget-cutting climate at Southeastern Louisiana University. Starting this fall, officials announced, degrees in French and French education may be cut.