THE FRENCH QUARTER—Herbert Asbury—Knopf ($3.50). In 1721 the French Administrator Jean Baptiste Le Moyne, Sieur de Bienville, laid out the site of New Orleans “in the form of a parallelogram, 4,000 ...
NEW ORLEANS -- New Orleans has gone retro -- way retro. It is, in a fundamental sense, as it was long ago, 287 years ago, when a French aristocrat named Jean Baptiste le Moyne, Sieur de Bienville, ...