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The French Market (French: Marché français) is a market and series of commercial buildings spanning six blocks in the French Quarter of New Orleans, Louisiana. Founded as a Native American trading post predating European colonization, the market is the oldest of its kind in the United States. [ 1 ]
The French Quarter, also known as the Vieux Carré, is the oldest neighborhood in the city of New Orleans.After New Orleans (French: Nouvelle-Orléans) was founded in 1718 by Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne de Bienville, the city developed around the Vieux Carré ("Old Square" in English), a central square.
The name French Quarter is misleading in that many of the buildings date from the late-18th century, after the two New Orleans fires of 1788 and 1794 destroyed over 80 per cent of the city.
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It is the second oldest such business in Greater New Orleans, after Café du Monde. Morning Call was opened by Joseph Jurisch in 1870, at the lower end of the New Orleans French Market, [1] eight years after its main competitor, Café du Monde, opened a few blocks upriver in the French Quarter. [2] For over a century it was a French Quarter ...
By the end of French colonization in Louisiana, New Orleans was recognized commercially in the Atlantic world. Its inhabitants traded across the French commercial system. New Orleans was a hub for this trade both physically and culturally because it served as the exit point to the rest of the globe for the interior of the North American continent.