Bernard de Marigny

Marigny inherited his father's plantation at 15, and his guardian sent him to England, where he spent much of his time in gambling venues. He brought home the dice game hazard, which locals called Crapaud. In 1798 he hosted the exiled Louis-Philippe, Duke of Orleans, and his brothers. He sat on the City Council in 1811 and 1814 and served as aide-de-camp to Governor Claiborne during the Battle of New Orleans, then lost the 1824 and 1828 races for governor. Levee crevasses destroyed his sugar crops in 1850 and 1851, and his brickyard went bankrupt.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• St. Louis Cemetery No. 1 — steps away
  New Orleans' oldest surviving city of the dead, opened in 1789 after the fire of 1788 and the burial place of Homer Plessy, reachable only on a guided tour since March 2015.
• Congo Square — 0.3 mi
  The 2.35-acre corner of Louis Armstrong Park where, from 1817, New Orleans confined Sunday dancing by enslaved people to one place, and where crowds of hundreds gathered to drum, dance and trade.
• The Historic New Orleans Collection — 0.4 mi
  A French Quarter museum and research center founded in 1966, whose 2015 Purchased Lives exhibition took on New Orleans' place as the largest slave market in antebellum America.
• The Cabildo — 0.5 mi
  The Spanish town hall on Jackson Square, finished in 1799, where Louisiana changed flags in 1803 and where the state Supreme Court sat in the same room until 1910, Plessy v. Ferguson among its cases.

More markers nearby

• Homer Adolph Plessy — steps away
• Marie Laveau — steps away
• Déterrer Storyville — steps away
• Congo Square — 0.2 mi