Frenchtown Confidential

Recently, Broguiere's Dairy in Montebello (founded by a French immigrant in 1920; still family-owned 99 years later) announced plans to ...

One of the most frustrating things about digging through Los Angeles history is finding out something with character, charm, historical sig...

On New Year's Eve, 1852, a French American and his English wife arrived in Los Angeles. Augustus Ulyard, born in Philadelphia to Frenc...

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...

Notre Dame de Paris burned yesterday. Notre Dame was 865 years old. She withstood countless wars, invasions, the French Revolution, lootin...

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 ...

Jeannette Lazard - one of Solomon Lazard and Caroline Newmark Lazard's six surviving children - was born in 1866. Sixteen-year-old Je...