Frenchtown Confidential
Tales from Los Angeles’ lost French quarter and Southern California’s forgotten French community.
Tuesday, June 17, 2025
Save the French Hospital!
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Dear Readers: the French Hospital is in danger of being torn down by a San Francisco developer . I have sent the following letter to the Of...
The French Hospital Is Critically Endangered
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In 1869, members of the French Benevolent Society laid the cornerstone of LA's original French Hospital - not in the French Colony, bu...
Sunday, June 8, 2025
So I Had To Write Another Letter To The Editor...
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Dear Editors: Today's otherwise delightful article on LA's oldest restaurants contained a factual error. It stated "At Philip...
Monday, December 2, 2024
All About the Amars
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Le Guide Français claims that Edouard Amar's name "was once synonymous with San Pedro". I suspect this is a slight exaggeratio...
Wednesday, February 28, 2024
Gone Too Soon: Pierre Louis Eschardies
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Pierre Louis Eschardies Jr., known as "Pete" to his friends, had it all, or was about to. Tall, dark, and athletic, Pete was born ...
Tuesday, February 27, 2024
The French (and Italian) Funeral Home
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It's not exactly a secret that San Francisco had quite a large French community of its own. Hell, San Francisco had an active French Hos...
Sunday, November 19, 2023
Jean Trébaol Vanishes
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Sometimes, people just disappear. It's much less common in the digital age. It would have been relatively easy to vanish without a trace...
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