The American Legion Weekly [Volume 4, No32 (August 11, 1922)] . ing of the days when men like Juche-reau St. Denis swashbuckled throughactual adventures which rival thoseimaginary ones of DArtagnan, liestucked away on shelves seldom discov-ered by aught but bibliophiles. Butthere is enough of commonly knownand proved history to give the city aplace apart for its romantic past andits present charm. The site of New Orleans, discovered240 years ago by the explorer La Salle,was actually established either late in1717 or early in 1718 by a courageousand gallant young Frenchman named built on the co
The American Legion Weekly [Volume 4, No32 (August 11, 1922)] . ing of the days when men like Juche-reau St. Denis swashbuckled throughactual adventures which rival thoseimaginary ones of DArtagnan, liestucked away on shelves seldom discov-ered by aught but bibliophiles. Butthere is enough of commonly knownand proved history to give the city aplace apart for its romantic past andits present charm. The site of New Orleans, discovered240 years ago by the explorer La Salle,was actually established either late in1717 or early in 1718 by a courageousand gallant young Frenchman named built on the convex side of the mostbeautiful crescent of the MississippiRiver, about eighty miles from thegulf, and although it has crept bothupstream and down until the riverboundaries are now the shape of ahuge letter S, it still is called theCrescent City. The original municipal-ity, in the heart of the present NewOrleans, is called Le Vieux Carre dela Ville. It is about a mile square andis bounded by the river, Canal Street,Esplanade Avenue and RampartStreet, which rep
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