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Barthélemy Lafon
Barthélemy Lafon (1769–1820) was a notable French architect, engineer, city planner, and Surveying, surveyor in New Orleans, Louisiana. He appears to have had a double life, as a respectable architect, engineer, and citizen; but also as a privateer, smuggler, and pirate. In later life his association with piracy, specifically with Jean Lafitte and Pierre Lafitte became public knowledge. Life and career Lafon was born in Villepinte, Aude, Villepinte, France, and traveled to New Orleans around 1790. He designed several public buildings, including public baths (plans submitted in 1797, but the bath house was never built) and a lighthouse, and numerous private homes (including the Benachi cotton brokers' house and the Vincent Rillieux house). After the Louisiana Purchase in 1803, with the Mississippi River open to free trade, land owners just upriver from the French Quarter, Vieux Carré realized that the old quarter dominated by the Spanish and French could not contain the great ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lafon Map New Orleans 1816
Lafon or LaFon may refer to: Places * Lafon County, an administrative area in South Sudan * Lafon, South Sudan, the headquarters of Lafon County People with the surname * Barthelemy Lafon (1769–1820), architect, engineer, city planner and surveyor in late colonial-period New Orleans * Chantal Lafon (born 1965), French rower * Guillaume Joseph Nicolas de Lafon-Blaniac (1773–1833), French general * Jacky Lafon, an actress * Jean-Jacques Lafon (born 1955), French singer-songwriter (one-hit wonder ) and painter * Marie-Hélène Lafon (born 1962), French educator and writer * Mathieu Lafon (born 1984). French professional football player. * Pauline LaFon Gore, mother of former United States Vice President Al Gore * Philip Lafond, Phil Lafon, Canadian pro wrestler * Thomy Lafon (1810–1893), Creole business man, philanthropist and human rights activist * William M. LaFon, President of the West Virginia Senate from 1939 to 1941 See also * Lafond * Laffon, a surname * Laffoon, a s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
