There’s much more to the annual tradition of Mardi Gras than partying. Check out our sampling of Mardi Gras history, trivia, ...

In the historic French Quarter of New Orleans ... this elegant hotel offers an on-site restaurant and comfortable guestrooms with iPod docking stations.Bienville House Hotel features an outdoor ...

The French establish "Nouvelle-Orleans" on the site of an erstwhile Quinnipissas Indian village. (Indians first occupied sites in eastern New Orleans around 500 B.C.) Like the Quinnipissas ...

The United States mail steamship Bienville, J. D. BULLOCK, Commander, from New-Orleans on the 15th and Havana the 18th, arrived at 1 o'clock-yesterday afternoon, after a fine run of less than four ...

In 1718 Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne, Sieur de Bienville, founded New Orleans in a location nearly surrounded by water and largely below sea level. The location was ideal for the commerce that flowed ...

The United States steamship Bienville, J.D. BULLGCH, commander, from New-Orleans the 15th and Havana the 18th, arrived at this port at an early hour yesterday morning. There is nothing of general ...

Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne de Bienville included plans for the church when he founded New Orleans in 1718. The original church on this site burned with much of the city in the Great Fire of 1788 ...

Bienville House is one of the best of the midsize French-flavored hotels in the Quarter, and timely maintenance only bolsters that claim. Unlike so many of the reworked hotels in and around the ...

The Royal Sonesta New Orleans is an iconic hotel located on the corner of Bourbon and Bienville streets in the French Quarter. (Misty Milioto)| Walking into The Royal Sonesta New Orleans ...