The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1928-10-05
CREOLE HAUNTS
HOLD HISTORIC
OF AGE
W
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Bronze Death Mask of Napo-
leon Recalls Plan to Effect
His Escape
SLAVE RELICS INTEREST
:
Epicures Seek Antoine's, Fa.
= NOUS Creole Restaurant,
for Meals
SLAVE RELICS INTEREST
BY GEORGE d. MANN

O1 UEOI6UE u. MANN
New Orleans, Oct. offending OF
French and Spanish influences
makes New Orleans city Of rare
appeal. The Vicux Carrie or liter
ally the "old square" is the center
from which radiates what little is
left Of the old Creole days. There
remains much of great historic sig
-nificance in this section with the st.
Louis Cathedral and the Gabildo. the
odd Spanish government house. as
the outstanding features.
Here the city was founded by
Bienville in 17lS and under the
quaint iron grilled balconies once
promenaded the proud Creoles of
Spanish and French mixture. the
south's real aristocracy. In this
section were also the haunts Of the
famous. They tell you stories Of
the days of Marquis de Lafayette.
Louis PHILIPPE. "thc Citizen King of
France" Gen. Andrew jackson,
Aaron Burr. Jean and Pierre Lafitte,
the pirates. and many others.
In this. probably the quaintest
section of the United States, Mich
olas Girod, once mayor Of New
Orleans, in 1921 concocted a scheme
to rescue Napoleon from st. Helena.
A selected band of pirates who had
q refuge in the Creole center were
to effect the rescue. But the death
Of the Little Corporal" ended the
fantastic dream of his sympathizers
ION American soil.
Show Death Mask
Today they reverently show you
- bronze replica from the death
mask of Napoleon in the Gabildo
museum given the state by DR..
Antommarchi. Napoleon's physician
1t St. Helena. He made the famous
death mask and following the EN-
peror's death located one of his
offices in New Orleans.
The Cabildo is the historic center
of the "old square," Here is to be
found the room where the Spaniards
transferred this territory back to
the French and within few weeks
Louisiana under the treaty of Paris
~-vas sold to the United States which
--the guide terms naively the great
~Ast real estate deal' in all history.
~ There is also gathered here q fine
-Eollection of relics of the DAYS Of
slavery rejecting both the dark and
s.Gay side Of that period-the slave
bells, the stocks, the auction blocks
and many other evidences of slavery
.days.
Dining at Antoine's
- No visit to the "old city, is COM
-s9lete without at least one meal 1t
sssAntoine's. . world famous Creole
Restaurant. with its Spanish court
gard founded in 1910 by the father
Of Jules Alciatore, the present pro-
~prietor. Dishes distinctively Creole
In their connection are sought by
<4he epicures. The owner advertises
The absence Of gild and glamour
mo deafening brass band between
ourses"-"no boisterous table
-neighbrs," for when you 90 to An
.-tOine's ut is to give your palate m
s-s,ndisturbed treat"
- You don't get the bands, the
-gevelry Of the modern night clubs,
but you get efficient service, super
dor food-no printed menu. You
wait with interest what is served
-os the waiter reels off unheard of
~dishes-you stop him 1t something
that sounds good and wait-it may
be oysters tipperary" or "bouilla-
.eaisse"-anyway you 60 away vot-
Ing Antoine's rs something different,
n here is tradition that some of the
5mpecunious live on crackers and
milk for days to save enough for .
rood gorge At Antoine's.
The New City
l& But New Orleans is not merely
The city Of the Creole or the Madri
sras. Crossing Canal street, one of
The finest in America, you leave the
history and romance that cling to
Che Gabildo district, to the old
French market, to st. Louis Cathe-
Iral and you enter most progress
tive American city Of broad streets.
Zine parks, excellent schools and
college, for New Orleans is a center
~ great culture, the city that gave
~ Audubon, the great naturalist,
litter whom one Of the city's most
famous parks is named and where a
sxreat statue has been reared to his
nemory. All bird lovers revere
his name.
Honor McDonough
Etrolling through the modern Sec
ton o. tie city, ones attention i
&nEKo1ted BY ! monument erected ia