Frenchmen Street

Frenchmen Street is a street in the 7th Ward of New Orleans, Louisiana. It is best known for the three-block section in the Faubourg Marigny neighborhood which since the 1980s has developed as the center of many popular live-music venues.

Frenchmen Street runs from the intersection with Esplanade Avenue just inland from the Mississippi River, back to the Gentilly neighborhood.^{[citation needed]}

History

In 1806 local landowner Bernard de Marigny, subdivided his property in 1806 to sell lots and develop a residential area. Many of the remaining houses in this area were built during the nineteenth century and are more than 100 years old; some are much older. Frenchmen Street "was named after six French men who were executed after leading the Louisiana Rebellion of 1768 after France ceded Louisiana to Spain following its defeat by Great Britain in the Seven Years' War.

See also

• List of streets of New Orleans

References

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Frenchmen Street.

• Frenchmen Street Live

New Orleans/Faubourg Marigny travel guide from Wikivoyage