Dominique You

By his own account to his Masonic lodge, Dominique You was born around 1775 in Cette, now Sete, France, and he served as an artilleryman in the Revolutionary army. He joined General Leclerc's 1802 expedition against Toussaint Louverture's forces in Haiti, then reached Louisiana and captained the Lafittes' ship Le Pandoure. When American forces took Barataria in September 1814 he was jailed in the Cabildo. He commanded the Baratarians' best gunners on January 8, 1815, and Jackson's January 21 order praised their gallantry and skill. He died on November 15, 1830, with a military funeral at public expense.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• St. Louis Cemetery No. 1 — 0.3 mi
  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 — 0.4 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 — 0.6 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 — 0.7 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

• Oscar James Dunn — steps away
• Jordan B. Noble — steps away
• Bernard de Marigny — 0.2 mi
• Homer Adolph Plessy — 0.2 mi