Frenchtown Confidential
Tales from Los Angeles’ lost French quarter and Southern California’s forgotten French community.
Thursday, July 28, 2016
The Artist: Henri Penelon
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Certain modern-day Angelenos say they're into their art (usually meaning they're auditioning for an art film so weird even I won...
Saturday, July 16, 2016
One Clever Bastard: John C. Frémont in Early L.A.
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At the dawn of the nineteenth century in Virginia, seventeen-year-old Anne Beverley Whiting, whose stepfather had squandered her family'...
Friday, July 8, 2016
Murders Most Foul: Michel Lachenais
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While Frenchtown's residents were mostly decent people, a few bad grapes did get into the wine vat. Michel Lachenais was one of them. ...
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...
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