The French Quarter, New Orleans' historic center, is the most interesting sixty-six square blocks in America. Known as the Vieux Carr 1/2, and locally as the Quarter, it is a unique community that has evolved over the past three hundred years. Founded in 1718 by the French, the colony came under the control of the Spanish in 1762. They would hold it until the Louisiana Purchase in 1803. Despite devastating fires in 1788 and 1794, traces of each...