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Celebrated in multimedia and misconception, New Orleans's French 1 / 4 (Vieux Carré) was the original pay out of what became the town of New Orleans. In Madame Vieux Carré, Scott S. Ellis presents the social and political history of this famous area as it improved from 1900 through the start of the 21st century. From the immigrants of the 1910s, to the preservationists of the 1930s, to the nightclub staff and owners of the 1950s and the urban revivalists of the 1990s, Madame Vieux Carré examines the many different people who have called the 1 / 4 home, who have defined its personality, and who have fought to keep it from being confused by tourism's neon and kitsch. The old French community needed on different tasks - bastion of the French Creoles, Italian immigrant slum, honky-tonk enclave, literary incubator, working-class community, and holiday playground. The 1 / 4 has been a place of refuge for various groups before they became mainstream Americans. Even though the Vieux Carré has been marketed as a free-wheeling, boozy holiday concept, it is out there on many levels for most groups, some with fighting agendas. Madame Vieux Carré appears, with unromanticized frankness, at these groups, their intentions, and the continuing future of the South's most historic and famous community. The author, a former 1 / 4 citizen, combines five years of research, personal experience, and unique interviews to weave a brief history of 1 of America's favorite neighborhoods.
