Frenchtown Confidential

Tales from Los Angeles’ lost French quarter and Southern California’s forgotten French community.

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Friday, April 26, 2019

Leon Loeb and the City of Paris

Leon Loeb was born in Alsace-Lorraine around 1845. After a stint as a bookkeeper in Switzerland, he arrived in Los Angeles in September of 1...

Friday, April 5, 2019

Behind the Scenes: Jeannette Lazard Lewin

Jeannette Lazard - one of Solomon Lazard and Caroline Newmark Lazard's six surviving children - was born in 1866. Sixteen-year-old Je...

Friday, March 22, 2019

Eugene Meyer: A Nameplate, a Cemetery Plot, and Old LA's Best Department Store

Eugene Meyer - another cousin of Don Solomon Lazard - was born in Alsace in 1842, and came to Los Angeles at age 21 to work for Lazard's...

Friday, March 15, 2019

Four Decades of Service: Maurice Kremer

We've met "Don Solomon" Lazard . Today we'll meet his cousin and onetime business partner. Maurice Kremer was born in Fr...

Tuesday, March 12, 2019

Coming Up: French-Jewish Citizens of Early Los Angeles

I can't stand watching the news anymore. One of the things that appalls me the most is the rise in anti-Semitism, both in the USA and ...

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C.C. de Vere: I'm a native Angeleno and my primary ethnicity is French. Searching for my own roots led me to discover a long-ignored French community in my native Southern California. Now I'm telling its stories.

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