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unusual facts about Château of Maisons-Lafitte



Anderson v. Jackson

Prior to Hurricane Katrina, the Housing Authority of New Orleans (HANO) planned to demolish and redevelop four deteriorated public housing developments:  B.W. Cooper, C.J. Peete, St. Bernard, and Lafitte (collectively, "the Big Four").

André-Joseph Lafitte-Clavé

André-Joseph Lafitte-Clavé, also André-Joseph de Lafitte (1740, Clavé, near Moncrabeau–1794, Perpignan) was a French Army engineering officer.

Charlotte Mary Sanford Barnes

She also adapted the Joseph Holt Ingraham novel Lafitte, The Pirate of the Gulf, about the French Gulf of Mexico pirate Jean Lafitte who helped win the Battle of New Orleans.

Ed Lafitte

Since the pirate Jean Lafitte's life span was c.1776-c.1823, it is not possible that Ed Lafitte was his descendant.

François-Joseph Bélanger

Bélanger constructed the Folie Saint James, a French landscape garden, in Neuilly from 1777 to 1780, and worked for the comte d'Artois at the Château of Maisons-Lafitte.

The Man from Blackhawk

Tommy Rettig and Amanda Randolph, for instance, are cast as Pierre and Auntie Cotton, respectively, in "The Ghost of Lafitte" (1960), set in New Orleans, Louisiana, with Robert Foulk as Hoag Lafitte.

Vita Sackville-West

Lady Sackville, Vita's mother, invited Rosamund to visit the family at their villa in Monte Carlo; Rosamund also stayed with Vita at Knole, at Rue Lafitte, and at Sluie.

Voergaard Castle

Chenu-Lafitte was the daughter of Jules-Émile Péan, one of the great French surgeons of the 19th century, and owned an extensive art collection which originated both from her father and deceased husband.


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