History
Margaret Haughery
Margaret Gaffney Haughery was a successful business entrepreneur and noted philanthropist of nineteenth-century New Orleans.
Antebellum Period
Antebellum Period Index
Art
Marie Adrien Persac
Painter, photographer, surveyor, lithographer, and inventor Marie Adrien Persac was the most important delineator of plantatino scenes in nineteenth-century Louisiana.
History
Marie Couvent
Marie Couvent, also known as Marie Justine Cirnaire, was a wealthy free woman of color in New Orleans who donated property for use as a free school.
History
Marie Laveau
Marie Laveau was a free woman of color born in the French Quarter of New Orleans. Laveau assumed the leadership role of a multiracial religious community for which she gave consultations and held ceremonies. During her time, she was known as "The Priestess of the Voudous"; among many other colorful titles.
Archaeology
Marie Thérèse Coincoin
Coincoin, a formerly enslaved woman freed in colonial Natchitoches, is an icon of American slavery and Louisiana’s Creole culture.
History
Mary Ann Patout
Mary Ann Patout was an important figure in the Louisiana banking and sugar industries.
Art
Matthew Jouett
Matthew Harris Jouett was recognized during his lifetime as the first notable American artist to emerge from the American frontier.
Art
Meyer Strauss
Artist Meyer Straus, a leading theater scenery painter, also produced masterful landscapes during his time in Louisiana.
History
Micaela Almonester, Baroness Pontalba
Micaela Leonarda Almonester de Pontalba was the sponsor of landmark architectural complexes in her native Louisiana, as well as in France, her home for sixty-seven years.
History
Mother Mary Hyacinth
Mother Mary Hyacinth led nine Daughters of the Cross from France to central Louisiana in 1855 to open a convent and several schools.
Architecture
Mulberry Grove Plantation
Before its restoration in the 1950s, the Mulberry Grove Plantation house was being used as a hay barn.
Government, Politics & Law
Napoleonic Code
The French Civil Code of 1804 standardized civil law in France, becoming a model legal framework for jurisdictions around the world, including Louisiana.
