Bourbon Street
Legendary French Quarter thoroughfare of bars, jazz clubs and balconies lit for after dark.
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This guide to Bourbon Street in New Orleans starts at a marble fountain worn smooth since 1874, where a Barcelona-born bartender named Cayetano Ferrer opened the Absinthe House. It reaches back further to 1813, when Louisiana's governor put a bounty on the smuggler Jean Lafitte, who answered by printing his own reward for the governor's head, and to a wartime legend that Andrew Jackson slipped into a hidden upstairs room here to strike a deal with the very outlaw he had tried to buy dead. Listen for what each side was willing to trade before the British fleet arrived.
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