Lyle saxon biography of william shakespeare
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"Lafitte the Pirate" Turns 90
In , French Quarter resident Lyle Saxon cooked up a savory gumbo of fact and fiction that's become a New Orleans classic.
Lyle saxon biography of william shakespeare
- by John Sledge
Nearly two centuries beyond his death, Jean Laffite haunts the French Quarter still.
That’s Laffite with two f’s and one t, like he always wrote it. New Orleanians customarily spell his name with only one f and two t’s.
Spelling aside, tour guides regularly invoke the old pirate’s name, and his spirit may be easily conjured at Jean Lafitte’s Blacksmith Shop Bar at Bourbon, Café Lafitte in Exile at Bourbon and Jean Lafitte’s Old Absinthe House at Bourbon.
Other buildings claim at least partial association, including the Cabildo on Jackson Square, Maspero’s Exchange at Chartres and Napoleon House at Chartres. Throw in the modern establishments like Jean Lafitte Clothing ( Bourbon) and the Jean Lafitte House (hotel at Esplanade), and his status seems quite secure.
In contrast, his brother Pie