It's of course not some specific move just for Louisiana, France was sending trouble makers and people they didn't want in their society, men and women, to many other remote places that needed warm bodies.
“All of humanity's problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone.” -- Blaise Pascal
To balance it out, "Power corrupts" is nonsense.
Power reveals. --Robert Caro
This doesn't feel accurate at all, but I'm not going to spend time debunking this with French sources.
Wikipedia really has to be taken with a grain of salt.
What does it mean?
