Parlange (pronounced Parr lawn ja) was the name of a community located in southern
Pointe Coupee Parish, Louisiana
Pointe Coupee Parish ( or ; french: Paroisse de la Pointe-Coupée) is a parish located in the U.S. state of Louisiana. As of the 2010 census, the population was 22,802; in 2020, its population was 20,758. The parish seat is New Roads.
Pointe ...
, United States. The community was along
Louisiana Highway 1
Louisiana Highway 1 (LA 1) is a state highway in Louisiana. At , it is the longest numbered highway of any class in Louisiana. It runs diagonally across the state, connecting the oil and gas fields near the island of Grand Isle with the no ...
, on the banks of
False River.
History
Just northeast of Parlange is a plantation home known as
Parlange Plantation
The Parlange Plantation House (french: Plantation Parlange) is a historic plantation house at Louisiana Highway 1 and Louisiana Highway 78 in Pointe Coupee Parish, Louisiana. Built in 1750, it is a classic example of a large French Colonial pla ...
. The plantation was named for Charles Parlange, a Frenchman. The home was originally owned by Marquis Vincent de Ternant. Parlange was the childhood home of
Virginie Amelie Gautreau (née Avegno), descendant of the Marquis and the infamous ''Madam X'' of the
John Singer Sargent
John Singer Sargent (; January 12, 1856 – April 14, 1925) was an American expatriate artist, considered the "leading portrait painter of his generation" for his evocations of Edwardian-era luxury. He created roughly 900 oil paintings and more ...
portrait in the
Metropolitan Museum of Art
The Metropolitan Museum of Art of New York City, colloquially "the Met", is the largest art museum in the Americas. Its permanent collection contains over two million works, divided among 17 curatorial departments. The main building at 1000 ...
in New York City.
From 1902 to 1904, a post office served the surrounding community.
[Lockhart, John M. "Roadmap to the Westside," ]
The Riverside Reader
', January 21, 2008, p.10
References
Baton Rouge metropolitan area
Ghost towns in Pointe Coupee Parish, Louisiana
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