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9 unusual facts about Gentilly


Disaster tourism

On the other hand, such communities as Gentilly and Lakeview, along the 17th Street Canal, have welcomed organized tour groups as a means to publicize the scale of the destruction and attract more aid to the city.

Gentilly, New Orleans

55- Elysian Fieldswhich runs from University of New Orleans, Elysian Fields at Gentilly (Nearside, Elysian Fields at Galvez, St Claude at Elysian Fields, Canal at Tchoupitoulas.

Gentilly, Val-de-Marne

Sophie Marceau, the movie actress, born in 1966, lived in Gentilly.

Pepin the Short (Pépin le Bref), eighth-century king of the Franks, son of Charles Martel, and father of Charlemagne.

Larry Bagneris, Jr.

Due to a U.S. Federal program of "Urban Renewal" of the 1960s, the Bagneris Family relocated to the Gentilly neighborhood of New Orleans.

Leonard Riggio

Project Home Again will spend $20 million from the Riggio Foundation to build new homes in the Gentilly neighborhood of New Orleans.

Maison de la photographie Robert Doisneau

-- This article is not titled in English because the creator of the article couldn't find authoritative use of this or any other English name --> is a photography gallery in Gentilly, Paris, created to commemorate the Parisian photographer Robert Doisneau.

Nicolas-Jean-Baptiste Raguenet

Nicolas-Jean-Baptiste Raguenet (1715 – 17 April 1793) was a French painter born in Gentilly.

Seabrook Floodgate

The building of the floodgate was authorized by Congress in 2006 and will operate in tandem with the Lake Borgne Surge Reduction Barrier to reduce the risk of storm surge damage to some of the New Orleans region's most vulnerable areas – New Orleans East, metro New Orleans, the Ninth Ward, Gentilly and St. Bernard Parish.



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