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LeBlanc humorously recounted his French-language campaigning while a contestant on [[Groucho Marx]]'s [[NBC]] [[television]] quiz show, ''You Bet Your Life'' on January 18, 1951. When Groucho asked LeBlanc what Hadacol was good for, he quipped, "It was good for about five million dollars for me last year."
LeBlanc humorously recounted his French-language campaigning while a contestant on [[Groucho Marx]]'s [[NBC]] [[television]] quiz show, ''You Bet Your Life'' on January 18, 1951. When Groucho asked LeBlanc what Hadacol was good for, he quipped, "It was good for about five million dollars for me last year."
==Running for governor again, 1944 and 1952==
==Running for governor again, 1944 and 1952==
LeBlanc obtained $10,000 from the Louisiana State Legislature as a legislator for the creation of the Evangeline State Park, named after Evangeline, the heroine in the poem by [[Henry Wadsworth Longfellow]] entitled "Evangeline: A Tale of Acadie."
LeBlanc obtained $10,000 from the Louisiana State Legislature as a legislator for the creation of the Evangeline State Park, named after Evangeline, the heroine in the poem by [[Henry Wadsworth Longfellow]] entitled "Evangeline: A Tale of Acadie."
LeBlanc spent years researching his genealogy. He traveled to Canada, France, and [[England]], and succeeded in obtaining records which had formerly been sealed about his French ancestors who had migrated to Nova Scotia, Canada (formerly Acadia, French territory in the New World) then were exiled by the British in 1755. As a result of his research, LeBlanc wrote and published three books. ''The True Story of the Acadians'' in 1927. A revised "improved version" of the book was published in 1932, and ''The Acadian Miracle'' in 1966. The books are considered to be seminal works in Acadian history and culture. In 2016, LeBlanc's granddaughter, award-winning author M. M. Le Blanc, revised, enhanced and edited his 1927 book as the 90th Anniversary Edition and subsequently as the 93rd Anniversary Edition with Index, and his 1966 book as the 50th Anniversary Edition and subsequently as the 53rd Anniversary Edition with Index.
In the late 1960s, he, along with former [[U.S. Representative]] James R. Domengeaux, worked to establish CODOFIL, or le Conseil pour le développement du français en Louisiane (the Council for the Development of French in Louisiana). LeBlanc spent years researching his genealogy. He traveled to Canada, France, and [[England]], and succeeded in obtaining records which had formerly been sealed about his French ancestors who had migrated to Nova Scotia, Canada (formerly Acadia, French territory in the New World) then were exiled by the British in 1755. As a result of his research, LeBlanc wrote and published three books. ''The True Story of the Acadians'' in 1927. A revised "improved version" of the book was published in 1932, and ''The Acadian Miracle'' came in 1966. In 2016, LeBlanc's granddaughter, award-winning author M. M. Le Blanc, revised, enhanced and edited his 1927 book as the 90th Anniversary Edition and his 1966 book as the 50th Anniversary Edition.<ref>M. M. LeBlanc, 'The True Story of the Acadians, 90th Anniversary Edition''; ''The Acadian Miracle, 50th Anniversary Edition,'' both books by BizEntine Press in [[Florida]].</ref>
LeBlanc created and organized three official pilgrimages of Louisiana Acadians to Grand Pre, Nova Scotia in which a delegation included Evangeline Girls from various towns and cities in Louisiana traveled to the ancestral home of their Acadian ancestors in Canada. They stopped off at the White House along the way for official meetings with Presidents [[Herbert Hoover]] in 1930, [[Franklin D. Roosevelt]] in 1936 and [[John F. Kennedy]] in 1963. The Evangeline Girls were young women dressed alike in Acadian garb chosen by Acadian communities in Southwest Louisiana, each girl wearing a sash indicating the town she represented, and were named after the heroine of the poem by Longfellow.
LeBlanc created and organized three official pilgrimages of Louisiana Acadians to Grand Pre, Nova Scotia in which a delegation included Evangeline Girls from various towns and cities in Louisiana traveled to the ancestral home of their Acadian ancestors in Canada. They stopped off at the White House along the way for official meetings with Presidents [[Herbert Hoover]] in 1930, [[Franklin D. Roosevelt]] in 1936 and [[John F. Kennedy]] in 1963. The Evangeline Girls were young women dressed alike in Acadian garb chosen by Acadian communities in Southwest Louisiana, each girl wearing a sash indicating the town she represented, and were named after the heroine of the poem by Longfellow.