658. Part 2 of our conversation with Scott Tilton. Scott is

the Co-Founder and Director of the Nous Foundation, a platform

for exchange between Louisiana and the French-speaking world. He

lived the past several years in Paris where he worked as a

consultant at Ernst & Young France on projects for the

European Union, the UN, and the French Government. While in

Paris, Scott launched and spearheaded an initiative that saw

Louisiana become the first U.S. state to join the International

Organization of the Francophonie (La Francophonie).

1. Now available: Liberty in Louisiana: A Comedy.

The oldest play about Louisiana, author James Workman wrote it

as a celebration of the Louisiana Purchase. Now it is back in

print for the first time in 221 years. Order your copy today!

Anthology. George Washington Cable. “Café

des Exiles.” An antiquated story-and-a-half Creole

cottage sitting right down on the banquette, as do the Choctaw

squaws who sell bay and sassafras and life-everlasting, with a

high, close board-fence shutting out of view the diminutive

garden on the southern side. An ancient willow droops over the

roof of round tiles, and partly hides the discolored stucco,

which keeps dropping off into the garden as though the old

café was stripping for the plunge into oblivion — disrobing

for its execution. I see, well up in the angle of the broad

side gable, shaded by its rude awning of clapboards, as the

eyes of an old dame are shaded by her wrinkled hand, the

window of Pauline. Oh for the image of the maiden, were it but

for one moment, leaning out of the casement to hang her

mocking-bird and looking down into the garden, — where, above

the barrier of old boards, I see the top of the fig-tree, the

pale green clump of bananas, the tall palmetto with its jagged

crown, Pauline's own two orange-trees holding up their hands

toward the window, heavy with the promises of autumn; the

broad, crimson mass of the many-stemmed oleander, and the

crisp boughs of the pomegranate loaded with freckled apples,

and with here and there a lingering scarlet blossom.

men repell a British reconnaissance force near Rodriguez

Canal.

(December 27, 1741 – February 1, 1820) was the first Mayor of

New Orleans. His wife, Marie Marguerite d'Estrehan, came from

one of the most prominent families of colonial Louisiana; her

father, Jean Baptiste d'Estrehan, was the Royal Treasurer of

French Louisiana. Etienne owned a plantation a few miles above

the City of New Orleans. There he had originally cultivated

indigo. But when this product lost its market as a result of

competition from Guatemala, he turned his attention to the

manufacture of sugar. On his estate he set up a sugar mill and

there, in 1795, had, with the aid of two Cubans, Mendez and

Lopez, succeeded in producing the first granulated sugar ever

known in the colony, with the result that agriculture was

completely revolutionized. He was appointed mayor by Governor

William C. C. Claiborne in 1803; he resigned to look after his

personal affairs the following year. He died at around 80

years old, and is buried in New Orleans' Saint Louis Cemetery

No. 1. One of his daughters was the mother of Louisiana

historian Charles Gayarré.

French Quarter

    There's no better time or place to welcome

2025 than New Orleans. Ring in the New Year with a spectacular

free concert and fireworks display along the Mississippi

River, while celebrations pulse through the French Quarter and

downtown. Join us for beloved traditions like the Allstate

Sugar Bowl parade and championship game on New Year's Day.

With excellent hotel rates still available and endless ways to

celebrate – from elegant dinners to live music venues to

family-friendly events – now is the moment to plan your

unforgettable New Year's Eve in the Crescent City. See below

for even more ways to celebrate.

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