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old building," Green said. "When I first saw them doing it they had two sides done and there were chips of brick and plaster from the tomb all over the ground. I asked them to stop and everyone (at the
Archdiocese) said they would stop but they are still doing it." said Green's allegation that the pressure washing is inflicting significant damage is "inaccurate."
1972:... it is amusing to note that at least four different portraits, which do not in the least resemble each other, have been claimed as likenesses of Marie; and it has become something of a joke in New Orleans that the owner of any unidentified portrait of a woman of color with her head wrapped in a tignon will almost invariably put forth a similar claim.
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priest known as Père
Antoine. The couple had two daughters, Félicité (b. 1817) and Angèle (b. 1822), who are presumed to have died in childhood. Paris worked as a carpenter in New Orleans until 1822; after which he disappears from city records. He is believed to have died in Baton Rouge in 1823. On
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detailed one such visit in an article published on May 14, 1871, in which he describes Marie Laveau as a “devout and acceptable member of the
Catholic communion." Following her death, her daughter Philomène confirmed during an interview with a reporter from the
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were arrested and accused of attempting to exhume Laveau from her grave after a local concert. The arrest took place in nearby Cemetery No. 2 and there are conflicting accounts of the incident.
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1023:"Marie Laveau | History of American Women"
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