Frenchtown Confidential

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

Monday, June 20, 2022

Wait, There Was A French School Tract?! And a Henriot Avenue?!

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Modern-day Los Angeles has a number of French-language private schools. The very first is long defunct; it was founded long ago by Teresa (s...
Thursday, May 26, 2022

What's In a Name?

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I finally got a chance to start watching  Bosch: Legacy .*  I highly recommend it, don't get me wrong, but I couldn't help cringing ...
Saturday, May 21, 2022

The Humble Surgeon

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Those of you in the medical field may have heard the name Dupuytren.  Baron Guillaume Dupuytren, a brilliant surgeon, pathologist, and profe...
Wednesday, May 4, 2022

Open Letter to the Los Angeles Times

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Dear Editors: I am posting this publicly because whenever I contact publications privately regarding factual inaccuracies, they ignore me an...
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Sunday, March 6, 2022

Romaine Grand and the Brick Victorian

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1030 East Cesar Chavez Avenue is tucked away in an odd little pocket of industrial Los Angeles fenced in by the 101, the 10, some rail yards...
Thursday, March 3, 2022

The Barn is Back!

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The  Le Mesnager barn , long closed to the public, is finally reopening. The stone barn, built long ago by  Georges Le Mesnager , was conver...
Sunday, January 16, 2022

Little Houses on Bernard Street

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Bernard Street is in Chinatown. That is, the short block of Bernard Street that concerns today's entry is in Chinatown.  Bisected by the...
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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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