Frenchtown Confidential
Tales from Los Angeles’ lost French quarter and Southern California’s forgotten French community.
Monday, May 6, 2019
Bread, Crackers, and Augustus Ulyard
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On New Year's Eve, 1852, a French American and his English wife arrived in Los Angeles. Augustus Ulyard, born in Philadelphia to Frenc...
Friday, April 26, 2019
Leon Loeb and the City of Paris
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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...
Tuesday, April 16, 2019
Throwing the First Stone
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Notre Dame de Paris burned yesterday. Notre Dame was 865 years old. She withstood countless wars, invasions, the French Revolution, lootin...
Sunday, April 14, 2019
Edgar J. Meyer Died on the Titanic
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I question whether I should include Edgar J. Meyer in this blog, since he was raised in San Francisco and I’ve seen conflicting information ...
Friday, April 5, 2019
Behind the Scenes: Jeannette Lazard Lewin
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Jeannette Lazard - one of Solomon Lazard and Caroline Newmark Lazard's six surviving children - was born in 1866. Sixteen-year-old Je...
Sunday, March 31, 2019
Pierre "Wrongway" Beauregard Rides Again
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I spend God only knows how many hours poring over old books, old city directories, and very old newspapers in search of clues about the forg...
Friday, March 22, 2019
Eugene Meyer: A Nameplate, a Cemetery Plot, and Old LA's Best Department Store
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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...
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