Jean-Bernard Xavier Philippe de Marigny de Mandeville, known as Bernard de Marigny, was a French-Creole American nobleman, playboy, planter, politician, duelist, writer, horse breeder, land developer,
Faubourg Marigny
…residing in the neighborhood. The Faubourg Marigny was laid out in the first decade of the 19th century by Creole real estate developer and politician Bernard de Marigny, on land that had been his family's plantation just downriver from the old city limits of New Orleans. The portion of the Faubourg Marigny closer to…