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Life osi'tiie
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ersity’ provided us all with a solid ,”as most of the students went on to 1 school and college with apparent
XAIBORNE PERRILLIAT
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ease. (Mr. Perrilliat received a degree<[■ vehicle down Esplanade* Maybe passing, in engineering from Tulane University.) •	the de la Vergnes exercising their pair of'
Most of the boys went on' to Warren-	" beautiful trotting horses. , „• •
Easton, then the only boy’s high school;'^.	:	***	S'	'	/ ' -S,
in the city, or to one of the private*’# The Creole had a security,of position i'v*-schools such as Newman, New Orleansfrom his generations of amalgamated ^
■ Academy or Jesuit. The girls nearly.v<i European cultures "which enabled him to-’j ' always attended the private institutions1’;' approach life with his quiet charm and". Sacred Heart, Finney’s or Miller’s:	seek	only otium cum dignitatem	) •;
As the students were arriving home in v) To some, the grasp on past glory may the afternoon, the ladies were just ven-^, have been slipping, but with a wondrous :
' turing out around 4 o’clock for a little J:-talent for introspection and a shrugged' '
! polite and genteel socializing (“yackety -''sic transit he could even translate his,
•	yacking” Mr. Perrilliat dubs it) as they ,;own misfortunes-into such descriptive
meandered down the avenue exchanging	plights as Creole degringoles (“one who	.
news and tidbits of gossip.	had lost hi^ shirt and was sliding down a	>
And woe to the subject of a discussion . bannister”) and the more hopeless situa-	,
which began with a conspiratorial "on ' j_tion of a Creole papier jaune (the unfor-dit”as that was definitely the harbinger tunate who had lost his shirt and was re-. V > of a really juicy, even scandalous,''-yduced to rolling his own cigarettes from m .morsel.	^	a yellow paper, paie papier jaune).	' f-)-
_ Social life was confined to family \	1920, Esplanade was becoming
parties, the Opera and naturally Carni-	shabby, and the Creole who could afford
val, with their lew select balls in which.	was moving away. Many of the more	»'
_ they invited their daughters to partici- affluent now joined the “Americaine” in pate. On the expansion of the Carnival. ' the thriving Garden District. ' celebrations ol today, Mr. Perrilliat only .. -»*jf they were making money, they .
, 'smiles and offers an enigmatic II croiSi moved out,” states the pragmatic Per- • ,«qu elle la cuisse de jupiler.	.	;V‘	riIliat, who heads the Perrilliat-Rickey'-
•	It was an ambulatory society, as the Construction Co., which is not surpris-boundaries of ll.cir world were contain-. .; j , currentiy engaged in,the French'! ed in an area easny accessible to these Ma/ke, restoraUo„ project.
' indefatigible walkers who rarely mam-tested a trace of that fictional indolence	T,hough enjoying a renaissance today .
thought synonymous with Creole ladies^'EsPlanade Avenue once the proud and and gentlemen	exclusive domain of the Creole, would
. A truly magnificent sight was the ap- r: not number any of those old families in ;• .pcarance of the first automobile -r- a restored homes.	J , VV
.splendid Packard owned by Mr. Nott, '.A' Claiborne Perrilliat, a modern Creole '
.• who every afternoon would gather his vJ.with his apt French phrases and swing-- .
•	wife and two daughters, Lady Kate and. . inS American lingo, lives1 Uptown and
’ Miss Emma (“and that is what they comments maybe a bit wistfully, Oh. ■were always called”), and be driven by vV"	'weaned, away from Esplanade.
.auniformed chauffeur in this mawelous if ( Itseeipa;pit^;^^^..ifj;;.
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The Creole is of Louisiana lineage. - name was fashioned from the Latin ire with an added olio for euphony
went ont and purchased five cows and went into the milk business.
With his astonishing memory for by-
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was Virginia Couturie; Amelie, married to Martin Matthews; Lucy, wife of Samuel Coleman, and Martin Duralde, wed
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