If there were a Hall of Fame for sentences most frequently uttered inside any given French Quarter building, one has to think some variation of “if these walls could talk”
But to understand how and why the Texas state capital wound up in Louisiana, you've got to go back to May of 1541. The whole mess began when a Spanish explorer, Hernando de Soto, discovered the Mississippi River and named it the Rio del Espiritu Santo, the River of the Holy Spirit.