"The sons of New Orleans were prudent in council, brave and gallant in warfare, generous in hospitality, and deeply attached to the pure pleasures of a home life, where urbanity, grace and good taste made their homes a rendezvous for the cultured and refined, — and so brilliant were the assemblies which grouped together the elite of the city, that a European might easily fancy the beautiful women in their silks and laces and jewels, and the gallant men so distinguished and noble."
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Life of the Abbe Adrien Roquette (1913)
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Susan Blanchard Elder
Susan Blanchard Elder (April 19, 1835 – November 3, 1923) was an American writer.
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