The Topeka state journal., 1902-11-17

ciety. Then it became at once the pop-
ular society game of the day.
The Marignys We're the Oldest, richest
and most aristocratic Creole family in
Louisiana. They were sent by the
French government to witness the
foundation of New Orleans. obtaining
a grant of a plantation Immediately ad-
joining the new city.
They were Knights of ST. Louis. FAR
quises in France. and alone AMONG the
creole families of louisiana entitled to
the honor of burial in the walls of the
Cathedral of St. Louis. where marble
di&nities.
One of the family rose to distinction.
commander of the royaist army in the
war n yendee. The Louisiana branch
remain in New Orleans. where the fam
| lily became, in consequence of the a6i-
vance in the value of their property, inn
menSely wealthy.
Bernard Marigny had Travelled in
France Just befofeethe revolution and
somewhere in that eQuntry-he forgot to
tell where-he picked up the game OF
craps although tit was pOssiblyse not
known BY that name.
/ When he returned to America he
! brought it with hiu, and it at once be
came the fashionable game. When many
/ of the French nobility sought refuge ir.
America among friends and relatives,
I Bernard Marignys kept open house for
them at his splendid place Fontain-
bleau. across Lake Ponchartrain from
! New Orleans and near Mandeyille a
| town he laid out and named for the
/ family name is MandeVille de Marigny.
/ Among those he entertained were
! Louis Philippe. the future king of the
| French, and that kings are not always
ungrateful or forgetfuI is proved by the
/ fact that when he was placed on the
French throne he sent for his friend s
son, Vaudeville de Marigny, who spent
several years in France as the comrade
7 TSI,s
/ son. whose untimely death contributed so
largely to the fall of the -Orleanist line.
There is scarcely q trace of Fontaine-
bleau today, although the neighboring
town of Vaudeville is plospering but
stories of the splendor4 and 4extravagance
of the life thereof still survive through
out the neighboring country
Bernard Marignys was a SAMPLER born.
and his large fortune allowed him to in
dulge himself in the matter of playing
New Orleans was then one of the most
prosperous cities in tile country and
whenever Marigny needed money he had
only to cut off a slice of his plantation
and divide it into town lots.
He was a man of considerable humor
anything but hypocrite and made no
effort to conceal his gambling tendencies.
When he lost hundred thousand or so
at the game of bagatelles Just then in
! favor, he ran street through the corner
of his plantation sold the lots to pay his
lgambling debts, and as h rf1emente of his
misfortune named the street Bagatelle.
Craps made another large hole in his
fortune, and accordingly another slice of
the plantation came off, and a new street
| was laid out named Craps and SO on
street after street was honored with the
name of some game at which Marigny
had suffered loss. until the entire .planta-
ton had disappeared and mad become part
of the city-the Faubourgl Marigny. 1t
afterward bIossomed out as the Third
municipality, and is now the Third dis
trict of New Orleans.
Craps street disappeareds several years
ago. 1t was a.auiet, -ordRrl5. street. with
many churches on it, and it sounded ,rath-
er odd to hear of the Craps Street AIetho-
dist church. se. .s=~4 II 4r4
With creole's idea Of m army of SER
wants and dependents, y}frnapa Ma igny
! had several scores of .tezsoes at hiss Fnn-
/ tainebleau place to- wait on Fhis guests.
| It was these servants VINO prabaloly in
troduced Gaps among inc negroes. s.,
The game sprsad 4 o. ssfbq)auts nf Louis
lana. of tlaea southt1 anan4tinatlysF7o the
country and sbecaeae asstfnctively; ztl,e
game of ths.negroes@ although the whites
have occasionally played it.-San Fran
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