Today in New Orleans History

February 29

OUDOUSQUIE, Charles, impresario.  Born, New Orleans, February 29, 1814 [sic]; son of Norbert Boudousquié and Marie Thérèse Héloïse de Chouriac.  Succeeded Pierre Davis as director of the Théâtre d'Orléans (ca. 1853).  Instrumental in construction of the new French Opera House, which opened December 1, 1859, and which he managed until the outbreak of the Civil War.  Appointed notary public, September 26, 1865.  Married, May 29, 1858, soprano Julie Calvé (q.v.).  Children (adopted):  Marie (Leduc) and Charles Paul (Leduc) Boudousquié.  Died, New Orleans, August 23, 1866; interred St. Louis Cemetery II.  J.B.**  Sources:  Tagliche Deutsche Zeitung, November 2, 1853; New Orleans Daily Picayune, April 17, 1859; New Orleans Times, August 25, 1866; Daily Picayune, August 26, 1866; Daily Southern Star, September 28, 1865; St. Louis Cathedral, New Orleans, La., Baptismal Book 7 (1811-1815); Annunciation Church, New Orleans, La., Marriage Register I; St. Louis Cathedral, New Orleans, La., Cemetery Records (April 1860-June 1871).  From http://lahistory.org/site19.php

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