Frenchmen, Desire, Good Children: . . . and Other Streets of New Orleans! - Paperback

by John Chase (Illustrator)

Few cities can boast such numerous, strange-sounding, regal, and historic street names as New Orleans.

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Have you ever wondered where the fascinating and often difficult-to-pronounce street names of New Orleans come from? This classic, humorous reference on the nomenclature of the city's roadways explains the history of such street names as Tchoupitoulas, Marigny, Poets, Decatur, and more. Frenchmen, Desire, Good Children reveals the intriguing tales of the developers, families, notorious and famous people, places, and events from which these names were created, sharing the street-level history of this one-of-a-kind American city.