Jean Galatoire (5 December 1854 – 30 September 1919) was a French-American restaurateur who owned Galatoire's restaurant on Bourbon Street in New Orleans, Louisiana.
Galatoire was born in Pardies, a small village near Pau, France. In 1880, he immigrated to America, where he bought an inn and a restaurant in Birmingham, Alabama.[1] In 1896 he moved to New Orleans and opened up a café.[2]
In 1905, Jean Galatoire bought out Victor's Restaurant on Bourbon Street and reestablished it as Galatoire's.[3]
He died in 1919 in New Orleans.[4]
References edit
- ^ Galatoire, Leon (1994). Galatoire's cookbook. Pelican Publishing Company. p. 11. ISBN 0-88289-999-6.
- ^ McCaffety, Kerri (2002). Etouffee, Mon Amour: The Great Restaurants of New Orleans. Pelican Publishing Company. p. 56. ISBN 1-56554-926-0.
- ^ Arthur, Stanley Clisby (2007) [1936]. Old New Orleans: A History of the Vieux Carre, Its Ancient and Historical Buildings. Heritage Books. p. 212. ISBN 978-0-7884-2722-0.
- ^ New Orleans, Louisiana, U.S., Death Records Index, 1804–1949
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