Frenchtown Confidential

Tales from Los Angeles’ lost French quarter and Southern California’s forgotten French community.

Saturday, August 28, 2021

Standing Up to City Council

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Los Angeles is just as corrupt now as it was when Frank Shaw's goons were harassing reformers like Clifford Clinton. Regular readers kno...
Tuesday, August 3, 2021

The Mysterious Michel Clos

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Per the request of new reader Lauren M., I have been looking into Mike Clos, brother of Adelina Clos Leonis. Unfortunately, he’s a little tr...
Wednesday, July 14, 2021

Do You Hear the People Sing?

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On this day in 1789, revolutionaries stormed the Bastille to free political prisoners and raided the Hotel des Invalides in search of weapon...
Sunday, June 27, 2021

J'Accuse

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Dear Readers: I tried. Many of you tried. The Friends of Taix tried. Taix has been "landmarked", but it has also been marked for a...
Tuesday, June 1, 2021

LAST CALL to Save Taix!

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The City Council is meeting today (Wednesday, June 2) to vote on the Taix HCM nomination. Here's the problem: Mitch O'Farrell and hi...
Friday, March 19, 2021

See you Saturday, PCC!

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If you're a student at Pasadena City College and in the French Club, I'll be seeing you on Saturday morning! I've added some ext...
Monday, March 15, 2021

Charles Gay and the Lions' Playground

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Hauteville-sur-Fier is a little Alpine village not far from France's border with Switzerland. It was in this unlikely environment that L...
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C.C. de Vere
I'm a native Angeleno and my primary ethnicity is French. Searching for my own roots led me to discover a long-ignored French community in my native Southern California. Now I'm telling its stories.
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