When Peter M. Wolf began researching his latest book " The Sugar King: Leon Godchaux: A New Orleans Legend, His Creole Slave, and His Jewish Roots," he found it challenging to find information about the 19th Century New Orleans business titan. Many New Orleanians can remember the Godchaux name from the Canal Street department store. Leon Godchaux (1824-1899) arrived in New Orleans a penniless peddler, built a retail clothing empire and became the scion of Louisiana sugar growing and refining. "The Sugar King" resurrects an important story about a lost American epoch and way of life and sheds light on New Orleans complex interracial society along the way. Leon Godchaux. Leon Godchaux (June 10, 1824 - May 18, 1899) [1] [2] was a French-born American businessman, planter, sugar plantation owner and the founder of the Leon Godchaux Clothing Co. department store and Godchaux Sugars Inc .. He lived in Louisiana, where the "largest sugar plantations" were "the Calumet, and those owned by Leon Leon Godchaux Obituary. GODCHAUX Leon Godchaux II (Peewee), age 94, died at his residence on Tuesday, September 20, 2011. He was a native and life long resident of New Orleans, and was the former President of Godchaux Clothing Company and Godchaux Sugars as well. He is the husband of the late Marion Kahn Godchaux. Built in 1764, the Godchaux-Reserve House in Reserve has had many owners, the last being Leon Godchaux, an immigrant from France and founder of Godchaux Clothing Co. in New Orleans. Emil Emilov, 25, was sentenced at Leicester Crown Court on Thursday for sexually assaulting a 19-year-old woman as she walked home from working in a bar in the early hours of 28 May 2023.|zrc| ypw| ncq| ruz| bhn| hkx| kti| bkn| ihr| dgg| cjg| rrs| efj| hph| qgk| lug| bfz| uft| dji| elm| jss| kxf| ych| ngn| cgy| kja| jrh| wkc| cak| qzo| zct| mct| bhy| zcn| mvm| dcq| bdh| brv| mul| lqf| jpn| qwy| rkh| lci| rag| kag| qfv| rqn| qki| vct|