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House of Orléans. The 4th House of Orléans ( French: Maison d'Orléans ), sometimes called the House of Bourbon-Orléans (French: Maison de Bourbon-Orléans) to distinguish it, is the fourth holder of a surname previously used by several branches of the Royal House of France, all descended in the legitimate male line from the dynasty 's ...
Hotel Maison de Ville building was constructed after the disastrous Great New Orleans Fire of 1788, which destroyed much of 18th century New Orleans. The Maison de Ville was a two-story dwelling built by New France colonist Jean-Baptiste Lilie Sarpy in 1800. The playwright Tennessee Williams (1911–1983) was a frequent guest at the hotel in ...
Orléans is located in the northern bend of the Loire, which crosses from east to west. Orléans belongs to the vallée de la Loire sector between Sully-sur-Loire and Chalonnes-sur-Loire, which was in 2000 inscribed by UNESCO as a World Heritage Site. The capital of Orléanais, 120 kilometres southwest of Paris, is bordered to the north by the ...
The château de la Maison-Rouge at Gagny (see above) bought by Louis-Philippe I on 29 December 1845 for 60,000 francs. After the Revolution of 1848 , the former French king left it at the disposal of his former aide-de-camp , général de Rumigny , who acquired it on 12 January 1853 following the 10 January 1852 decree of the confiscation of ...
Marie Delphine Macarty or MacCarthy (March 19, 1787 – December 7, 1849), more commonly known as Madame Blanque or, after her third marriage, as Madame LaLaurie, was a New Orleans socialite and serial killer who was believed to have tortured and murdered enslaved people in her household. Born during the Spanish colonial period, LaLaurie ...
Maison Blanche (White House in French) was a department store in New Orleans, Louisiana, and later also a chain of department stores. It was founded in 1897 by Isidore Newman, an immigrant from Germany.
Monsieur Philippe I, Duke of Orléans (21 September 1640 – 9 June 1701) was the younger son of King Louis XIII of France and Anne of Austria, and the younger brother of King Louis XIV. He was the founder of the House of Orléans, a cadet branch of the ruling House of Bourbon . Styled Duke of Anjou from birth, Philippe became Duke of Orléans ...
The Louisiana Department of Health has ordered seven nursing homes to close immediately after they evacuated hundreds of patients to a single warehouse with “deteriorating conditions” to ...