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...
Saturday, June 25, 2016

Emergency Edition: Doughboy in Danger! Tell Everyone!

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Just last month, I wrote about Humberto Pedretti's Doughboy statue - the World War I memorial anchoring Pershing Square. (Or what passe...
Friday, June 17, 2016

Where Was Frenchtown? Mapping a Lost Community

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In the fall of 2014, I bought an old, well-worn copy of The French in Southern California History and the Southland Today , published in 193...
Saturday, June 11, 2016

The French and the Old Plaza Church

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Los Angeles proper has never had its own mission (200+ years ago, the San Gabriel and San Fernando missions were about a day's journey f...
Thursday, June 2, 2016

Jean-Louis Vignes: Father of French Migration to California

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Jean-Louis Vignes (pronounced "vines") was born in Béguey, France (in Bordeaux's wine country) in 1780. In 1827, at the age of...
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Monday, May 30, 2016

Memorial Day Special Edition: The Doughboy

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This is, obviously, a pretty new blog covering a complex subject: the history of Southern California's forgotten French community. I o...
Monday, May 23, 2016

LA's First Frenchman: Louis Bauchet

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Quick history lesson: After French emperor Napoleon had his dérriere handed to him at Waterloo in 1815, a lot of French soldiers found t...
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