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The French Quarter, also known as the Vieux Carré (UK: /ˌvjɜː kəˈreɪ/; US: /vjə kəˈreɪ/; [4] French: [vjø kaʁe]), 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 ...
By early Wednesday, Jabbar was walking the streets of New Orleans’ French Quarter between 1 a.m. and 2 a.m. and planting at least two improvised explosive devices, or IEDs, authorities have said ...
French Quater street scene. Scanned slides from a 2004 trip to New Orleans. Date: 2004: Source: originally posted to Flickr as French Quarter - New Orleans, Louisiana: Author: Mark Heard: Permission (Reusing this file)
Watch live as police investigate the scene of a New Orleans attack that has left 15 people dead and dozens more injured after a car drove into a crowd of people celebrating the New Year. The ...
Ernest Joseph Bellocq (19 August 1873 – 3 October 1949) [2] was an American professional photographer who worked in New Orleans during the early 20th century. Bellocq is remembered for his haunting photographs of the prostitutes of Storyville, New Orleans' legalized red-light district. [3] These have inspired novels, poems and films.
Like many French Quarter residents, Grose and neighbor Sherry Powell, 68, avoided Bourbon Street on New Year's Eve, ceding the narrow road for the night to the thousands of tourists who flooded in.
It opened August 14, 1988, making it the first new streetcar route in New Orleans in 62 years. The line ran for 2 miles (3.2 km) [ 2 ] from Julia Street at the upper end of the New Orleans Convention Center to the downriver (far) end of the French Quarter at the foot of Esplanade Avenue.
In 1938, General Lewis Kemper Williams [4] (1887-1971), a World War I veteran, Brigadier General in World War II, [5] [6] businessman, and honorary Consul General of Monaco in New Orleans, [7] and his wife, Leila Hardie Moore Williams [8] (1901-1966) bought two properties in the French Quarter, the Spanish Colonial Merieult House on Royal Street and a late 19th-century residence next to the ...