Frenchtown Confidential

Le Guide Français claims that Edouard Amar's name "was once synonymous with San Pedro". I suspect this is a slight exaggeratio...

Pierre Louis Eschardies Jr., known as "Pete" to his friends, had it all, or was about to. Tall, dark, and athletic, Pete was born ...

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...

Sometimes, people just disappear. It's much less common in the digital age. It would have been relatively easy to vanish without a trace...

Clementine Lamer wasn't meant to live an ordinary life. How many Angelenos throughout history could accurately claim that they were born...

I won't rehash the entire lengthy saga of the battle for Taix French Restaurant. That would take far too long. Here's the Cliffs No...

One of the most annoying aspects of researching French LA is that some historical documents, especially those written in Northern California...