Frenchtown Confidential
Tales from Los Angeles’ lost French quarter and Southern California’s forgotten French community.
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Tuesday, November 10, 2020
Why Losing Taix WON'T Fix Echo Park's Housing Crisis
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Last Christmas, my brother and his new wife flew out from Florida to visit the rest of us. My sister-in-law and I had a "girls' day...
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Thursday, March 12, 2020
We Need to Talk About Taix
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Sometime around 1870, a family of bakers and sheepherders from the Hautes-Alpes left France, emigrating to Los Angeles. For decades, custo...
Monday, April 9, 2018
The Most Trusted Citizen in 1850s LA was a Jewish Frenchman
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Don Solomon Lazard Imagine, for a moment, that it's the 1850s and you've just arrived in Los Angeles. Los Angeles has only be...
Thursday, January 26, 2017
Georges Le Mesnager: LA's Favorite Fighting Frenchman
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Georges Le Mesnager arrived in California in 1867. He was sixteen years old. In July of 1870, the Franco-Prussian War broke out. Travel ti...
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