{"product_id":"the-majesty-of-the-french-kerri-beth-daquinn-9781565544147","title":"The Majesty of the French Quarter","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"�highly recommended for architecture, photography, and history collections everywhere.\" --Library Journal\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"McCaffety knows how to capture the fleeting beauty of a moment.\" --Times Picayune\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor many, the French Quarter is New Orleans, yet how much do they really know about the Vieux Carr�? Truman Capote wrote, \"Of all secret cities, New Orleans . . . is the most secretive. . . . [Its] architecture deliberately concocted to camouflage, to mask, as at a Mardi Gras Ball, the lives of those born to live among these protective edifices.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThrough striking photographs and polished prose, The Majesty of the French Quarter opens the locked door and invites readers to discover a multitude of hidden marvels. Among the discovered gems is the 1828 Bourbon Street mansion of Lindy Boggs, U. S. ambassador to the Vatican and former congresswoman. Pictured are many such homes' secret, overgrown gardens where, noted Capote, \"mimosa and camellias contrast color, and lazing lizards, flicking their forked tongues, race along palm fronds.\" Also featured are rare glimpses of the antique-filled and artfully decorated interiors of some of the Quarter's most majestic homes, including that of New Orleans novelist Julie Smith.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhile this series has examined New Orleans as a whole and the city's Garden District in particular, the French Quarter has quietly kept her secrets to herself-until now.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Kerri Beth d'Aquinn\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1565544145\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781565544147\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Pelican Publishing Company\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/31\/1999\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 192\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 2.33lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 11.29h x 8.71w x 0.86d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e 02\/01\/2000 pg. 81\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eForeword\u003c\/i\u003e 03\/01\/2000 pg. 43\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e 03\/15\/2000 pg. 1325","brand":"Kerri Beth d'Aquinn","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48742593659135,"sku":"9781565544147","price":39.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_9fece883-a5d7-4472-9519-b63e0e33f5d0.jpg?v=1782446451","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-majesty-of-the-french-kerri-beth-daquinn-9781565544147","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}