Possible Clues:

• State agreement in Paris over girl entering city
• Where Jackson Day is celebrated
• American fix brought up, in which French agreement's required to get state
• State positive European words maintained by Turner
• Baton Rouge is the capital of this US state
• The State of the Novel, by Frances Hodgson Burnett
• Frenchman and Scot are in a state
• Article on developing oil in USA in one state
• LA woman embraces Scotsman
• Purchase territory on the Gulf of Mexico?