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After me the Deluge ["Aprés moi le Déluge"]. When I am dead the deluge may come for aught I care. Generally ascribed to Prince Metternich, but the Prince borrowed it from Mme. Pompadour, who laughed off all the remonstrances of ministers at her extravagance by saying, "Aprés nous le déluge" (Ruin if you like, when we are dead and gone).
The restaurant opened in 1939 as a sandwich shop on Clairborne Avenue. It moved to Orleans Avenue in 1941 by owners Emile and Dooky Chase and five years later, their son and daughter-in-law Edgar "Dooky" Chase Jr. and Leah Chase took over. They "turned the sandwich shop into one of the few upscale establishments available for the city's African ...
New Orleans After the Deluge. Tuesday, August 30. Katrina has finally passed New Orleans, and Hamid and Mansell emerge, blinking in the sunlight, ecstatic to have survived the storm. But then the flooding begins. Reluctant to abandon the store and fearful of looters, the two men stand fast in the rising waters. Wednesday, August 31. Hamid and ...
After the Flood (disambiguation) Après le Déluge; Après moi, le déluge; Before the Deluge; Deluge (disambiguation) Light and Colour (Goethe's Theory) – The Morning after the Deluge – Moses Writing the Book of Genesis, a painting by J. M. W. Turner; The Subsiding of the Waters of the Deluge, a painting by Thomas Cole
In December 2009, the descendants of founder Jean Galatoire, who had owned the restaurant for five generations, sold a controlling interest in the business to Destrehan businessman Todd Trosclair. After a subsequent transaction, a majority of Trosclair's interest was sold to New Orleans businessman (and political candidate) John Georges. As a ...
K-Paul's Louisiana Kitchen was a Cajun and Creole restaurant in the French Quarter owned by Paul Prudhomme that closed in 2020. [1] [2] Prudhomme and his wife Kay Hinrichs Prudhomme opened the restaurant in 1979. The restaurant is “credited with helping put New Orleans on the culinary map” and popularizing Cajun cuisine. [3]
Prudhomme opened his first restaurant in Opelousas in 1957, a hamburger restaurant called Big Daddy O's Patio. The restaurant went out of business in nine months, during which time his first marriage also ended. [1] He became a magazine seller initially in New Orleans, and afterward several restaurant jobs took him around the country.
The Napoleon House restaurant has an old-time New Orleans atmosphere and serves such traditional dishes as red beans and rice, gumbo, and jambalaya; it has been particularly known among locals for its muffaletta sandwiches. [6] The bar is known for serving its "Pimm's Cup" cocktail. [7] Classical music is played on the sound system.