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| Europe: Louis XV is married to Marie Leczinska the daughter of the former King Stanislas of Poland, while most of France experiences famine. English make advances in metal printing plates using plaster of paris and later papier-mache; Opera by Handel; concerts by Vivaldi; Romes Spanish steps completed by French architects. | |||||||||||
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February 1725
February 25 Jean Pierre Lassus and his younger brother arrive as assistants to De Pauger. Jean Pierre will draw a perspective of the city from the opposite bank of the river. It shows the windmill and the church under construction. De Pauger complains that the two brothers draw pretty pictures but have little technical experience. Pierre returns to France in November 1728, but his brother marries and stays in the colony. |
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May 30 A cemetery is indicated in the latest plan of New Orleans. It is a half square facing St. Peter between Burgundy and Rampart. It also shows a windmill on the levee. On this plan Royal is called Royale-Bourbon, Dauphine is called Conti, Burgundy is called Rue Vandome, Bienville is called D'Anguin, St. Philip is called Clermont, Ursulines is called Rue St. Adrien (for De Pauger) and rue D'Arcenal is moved one block down to present-day Governor Nicholls. |
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| Etienne Perier becomes French Louisiana s third governor as Bienville is recalled to France His intransigent character has worsened under the influx of under financed émigrés. While he is governor of Louisiana The Company of the Indies maintains its hold on the trade. He welcomes the Jesuits, the Ursuline nuns and the Cassette girls to the struggling settlement. He is offered a rich tract of the river front and eight slaves a year as long as he is governor. He builds the first levee, more than a mile long and 18 feet wide at the summit. He also responded to a Natchez Indian uprising by burning to death four men and two women prisoners burned to death. Etienne Perier loses his land and the governor ship and the Company of the Indies gives up on Louisiana and returns the trade monopoly to the crown. | In 1725 The Capuchin fathers open the first school in Louisiana in a heavy wood frame building across from the Presbytere. Father Raphael de Luxembourg is the Superior of the Capuchin mission in Louisiana. The building is built sur sol using heavy timbers laid directly on the ground. The frame is morticed and tennoned and pegged together and sheathed by wide boards on the outside. The roof is covered with shingles or strips of bark. The school is well received, but the site on St. Ann (617-619) is sold in 1753 to Jean Baptiste Destrehan. Later owned by Pedro Marigny and Julien Poydras the site gets a historical plaque for the school in 1961. |
Alejandro O’Reilly |
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