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• If Rice's book was meant to be about the ugly realities of placage, maybe it should have been Marie's story all along.
• That's the result of something called " placage, " a genteel form of prostitution in which white landowners agree to take care, financially, of one of these women without the burden of marriage or legal responsibility.
• Set mostly in the 1840s, this is the story of the free people of color of New Orleans, in the era of the quadroon ball and placage, the custom by which a wealthy white man chooses a part-African mistress and sets her up in a lifelong financial and residential arrangement.
• Degas's maternal great-grandfather, Vincent Rillieux, like other men of the Creole elite, fathered both white and racially mixed children, the latter via a peculiar institution, known as " placage, " by which " white men selected quadroon and octoroon mistresses _ the courtesans of their time _ at ` quadroon balls'specifically arranged for that purpose ."
• Together with a more permeable historic French system that allowed certain rights to " gens de couleur libres " ( free people of color ), often born to white fathers and their mixed-race concubines, a far higher percentage of African Americans in Louisiana were free as of the 1830 census ( 13.2 % in interracial unions were widespread under the system known as placage.