French Quarter (disambiguation)
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The French Quarter
French Quarter
The French Quarter, also known as Vieux Carré, is the oldest neighborhood in the city of New Orleans. When New Orleans was founded in 1718 by Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne de Bienville, the city was originally centered on the French Quarter, or the Vieux Carré as it was known then...

is the oldest neighborhood in the city of New Orleans, Louisiana.

French Quarter may also refer to:
  • French Quarter (Charleston, South Carolina)
  • Belden Place
    Belden Place
    Belden Place is a narrow alley in the Financial District of San Francisco, California that serves as the hub of the city's small French American community.-Location:Locally the street is sometimes called Belden Lane, Belden Alley, or Belden Street...

    , sometimes called the French Quarter of San Francisco


French quarter, the generic term, is also widely used, often as a historical reference; see for instance:
  • Soho
    Soho
    Soho is an area of the City of Westminster and part of the West End of London. Long established as an entertainment district, for much of the 20th century Soho had a reputation for sex shops as well as night life and film industry. Since the early 1980s, the area has undergone considerable...

    , the French Huguenot quarter of London in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries
  • Ba Dinh District, the former French Quarter of Hanoi
  • Saint Boniface (neighborhood), the French quarter of Winnipeg.
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