Frenchtown Confidential
Tales from Los Angeles’ lost French quarter and Southern California’s forgotten French community.
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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...
Thursday, July 13, 2023
Some Forgotten French Papers of Old LA
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One of the most annoying aspects of researching French LA is that some historical documents, especially those written in Northern California...
Sunday, November 27, 2022
The French Weekly, The French Library, Pierre Prévotière, and Amaury Mars
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Pierre Prévotière was an attorney from Paris. Arriving in the US in 1900 at age 24, he made his way to Los Angeles by 1906. A newspaper exc...
Saturday, May 21, 2022
The Humble Surgeon
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Those of you in the medical field may have heard the name Dupuytren. Baron Guillaume Dupuytren, a brilliant surgeon, pathologist, and profe...
Friday, January 8, 2021
News, Maps, Guns, and Félix Violé
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Félix and Jules Violé happened to be visiting their cousin in Bayonne when they encountered something unexpected: a copy of Le Progrés. Fou...
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