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Ville Platte is the largest city in, and the parish seat of, Evangeline Parish, Louisiana, United States. [2] The population was 6,303 at the 2020 census, [3] down from 8,145 in 2000.
Ville Platte, Louisiana, the seat of Evangeline Parish, was itself so named by one of Napoleon Bonaparte's former soldiers, Adjutant Major Marcellin Garand (1781–1852), of Savoy, France. (See Napoleon's Soldiers In America , by Simone de la Souchere-Delery, 1999).
1425 LA 29, about 3.9 miles (6.3 km) northeast of Ville Platte ... Ville Platte: House was moved by the owners about 22.3 miles (35.9 km) to the southeast in 1998.
Arthur Vidrine (December 20, 1896 - December 20, 1955) [1] was a physician from Ville Platte, the seat of Evangeline Parish in south Louisiana, who was best known for having operated on Democratic U.S. Senator Huey Pierce Long Jr., after Long was shot on September 8, 1935, in the Louisiana State Capitol in Baton Rouge, presumably by another young physician, Carl A. Weiss.
The Evangeline Bank and Trust Company, also known as Ville Platte City Hall, is a two-story building with elements of Classical Revival style located at 342 West Main Street in Ville Platte in Evangeline Parish, Louisiana. Built in 191, it is a masonry building.
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The Bank of Ville Platte, also known as La Banc de la Ville Platte, is a historic bank building located at 102 West Main Street in Ville Platte in Evangeline Parish, Louisiana. Built in 1907, it is a one-story masonry building prominent on a corner of two main streets in Ville Platte, which became the parish seat when Evangeline Parish ...
Born in Ville Platte in Evangeline Parish in south Louisiana, Thompson attended public schools there. From 1932 to 1934, he completed a two-year course in higher accounting at Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge. From 1934 to 1940, Thompson was the traveling auditor for the Louisiana Highway Commission.