 This effort represented a major shift for Louisiana's educational system, which for decades had punished Cajun children for speaking French in school — a practice that more than any other factor had dramatically reduced the number of native French speakers in the state.In 1976, Domengeaux arranged for the then French President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing to visit Lafayette.In the 1980s, Domengeaux embraced a new teaching method