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Introduction= A Casket (Casquette) Girl , also widely known as a cassette girl "filles à la cassette" refers to the women brought from France to the French colonies of Louisiana to marry. The name derives from the small chests, known as cassettes, in which they carried their clothes. They were conspicuous by reason of their virtue. Normally women were supplied to the colonists by raking the str...