Modeste, Louisiana is an unincorporated village in Ascension, Parish,

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. The community is located along the

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, north of the parish seat of

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, between Hohen Solms (area of the Germania-Elise Plantation), and Philadelphia Point, due south and across the river from

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. Modeste was the home of sugar cane plantation owner Leonard Julien (1910-1994) that invented a sugarcane-planting machine Julien lived in the old Babin Place that he purchased from Dr. John Harvey Lowery.

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Unincorporated communities in Louisiana Populated places in Ark-La-Tex Unincorporated communities in Ascension Parish, Louisiana {{Louisiana-geo-stub