 Next, in the 1740s and 1750s, French settlers meandered north from the Pointe Coupee Post in south French Louisiana and named many of bayous.These settlers returned south to Pointe Coupee before the Spaniards took possession of Louisiana in the late 1760s.The third wave of European settlers were actually descendants of the second wave, mostly true Louisiana Creoles born near the Point Coupee and Opelousas Posts.