Majesty of the French Quarter, Hardcover/Kerri McCaffety - Pelican Publishing Company

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" 1/2highly recommended for architecture, photography, and history collections everywhere."--Library Journal"Mc Caffety knows how to capture the fleeting beauty of a moment."--Times Picayune For many, the French Quarter is New Orleans, yet how much do they really know about the Vieux Carr 1/2? Truman Capote wrote, "Of all secret cities, New Orleans .
While this series has examined New Orleans as a whole and the city\'s Garden District in particular, the French Quarter has quietly kept her secrets to herself-until now..
Pictured are many such homes\' secret, overgrown gardens where, noted Capote, "mimosa and camellias contrast color, and lazing lizards, flicking their forked tongues, race along palm fronds." Also featured are rare glimpses of the antique-filled and artfully decorated interiors of some of the Quarter\'s most majestic homes, including that of New Orleans novelist Julie Smith. ambassador to the Vatican and former congresswoman.
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Among the discovered gems is the 1828 Bourbon Street mansion of Lindy Boggs, U.
Its] architecture deliberately concocted to camouflage, to mask, as at a Mardi Gras Ball, the lives of those born to live among these protective edifices."Through striking photographs and polished prose, The Majesty of the French Quarter opens the locked door and invites readers to discover a multitude of hidden marvels. . . . is the most secretive. . . " 1/2highly recommended for architecture, photography, and history collections everywhere."--Library Journal"Mc Caffety knows how to capture the fleeting beauty of a moment."--Times Picayune For many, the French Quarter is New Orleans, yet how much do they really know about the Vieux Carr 1/2? Truman Capote wrote, "Of all secret cities, New Orleans