Faubourg Marigny
Creole grid of colorful cottages laid out by a gambler-turned-developer, its streets still named after his passions.
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This guide to Faubourg Marigny in New Orleans follows Bernard de Marigny, barely twenty and freshly returned from London with an English dice game called hazard, who reshaped it into something new and taught it to anyone who'd sit at his table. You'll hear how he inherited his father's fortune at fourteen, then in 1805 talked the city into letting him carve that land into house lots and streets he named for his own passions. One of those names caused decades of trouble with the churches that went up along it. Listen for the streets that still carry his imprint as you walk the grid he gambled into being.
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