Frenchtown Confidential
Tales from Los Angeles’ lost French quarter and Southern California’s forgotten French community.
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Friday, July 17, 2020
Next Webinar 8/2: French Angelenos and Early LA's Water Struggle
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Every Angeleno knows William Mulholland is credited with bringing water to Los Angeles. Few, if any, are aware that for about forty years,...
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...
Monday, January 22, 2018
BREAKING NEWS: There IS a Surviving Picture of Damien Marchesseault!
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For years and years, Los Angeles historians have searched in vain for even ONE surviving picture of Damien Marchesseault . The book If City ...
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Monday, January 1, 2018
Excerpts from "Frenchtown! The Musical": Part 2
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If you read my first installment of this theatrical theme, you know there isn't *really* a musical about Frenchtown. My short-term obje...
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Monday, June 27, 2016
The Incredible Sainsevain Brothers
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(Image courtesy of the California State Archives. View more here .) There were four Sainsevain brothers in all, but two of them - Pierr...
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