Possible Clues:

• Girl touring island, an American state
• Many French monarchs had this name for a fair amount of Indian area on Texas border
• State’s stories connected with first of many French kings
• Pelican State, a southern US state
• Pelican State
• US state, on the Gulf of Mexico
• Frenchman's agreed to stuff a snail, cooking for Gallic-style place
• Plant secures agreements from French state
• It's named for the Sun King
• *It contains 64 parishes