The Mutinous Women helped weave the diverse experiences from the four corners of France into the new city's urban fabric.
A street vendor is featured n “Mon bel oeillet.” 1738. Comte de Caylus and Étienne Fessard after Edme Bouchardon.n Dec. 12, 1719, a ship named “La Mutine,” the Mutinous Woman, left the French port of Le Havre. The frigate was bound for the vast territory in what is now the United States that the French called “Louisiana” in honor of. The vessel transported only female passengers, all of them convicts taken from one of Paris’s most notorious prisons.
Among them was Manon Fontaine, a 19-year-old illiterate Parisian street vendor, who was walking the cobblestones of her native city all day long selling day-old fruit from a basket strapped around her waist, when she was arrested and charged with murder.
It was only in 1721 that Louis Pierre Le Blond de La Tour began the actual planning of New Orleans. To help design the capital he chose his student, Charles Franquet de Chaville, as well as Adrien de Pauger. With a handful of workers, Pauger began clearing enough space so that street layout could begin. And the work was no simple matter since there were huge cypress trees to be uprooted and felled and thick masses of cane and river reeds to be hacked away.
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