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TRÉMOULET, BERNARDO. Document signed ("B. Tremoulet"), a petition addressed to the Governor-General of Louisiana, the first page bearing the Governor's endorsement in response, signed "Le Baron de Carondolet," ACCOMPANIED BY A PEN AND INK MAP OF A RIVERFRONT BLOCK IN NEW ORLEANS, New Orleans, Louisiana, 19 July 1796. 2 pages, folio, 332 x 202 mm. (13 x 8 1/8 in.), dampstains causing damage to paper and partly effacing a few words in several lines, in Spanish. [With:] Manuscript map of a section of the New Orleans waterfront, endorsed and signed by Carlos Trudeau, New Orleans, 1796, 1 page, 4to, 307 x 200 mm. (12 1/8 x 7 7/8 in.), dampstains, partial hole in one corner (patched from verso), captions in Spanish; both in red quarter morocco gilt protective case.
A petition with annexed map in which Trémoulet, "vecino de esta ciudad," formally asks permission to construct a bathhouse to enable the citizenry of both sexes to take healthful baths at all times of the year in the waters of the Mississippi, and to open, on the street side, a cafe which will serve refreshments to "decent persons" who traverse the thoroughfare. His building, Tremoulet asserts, will be completely constructed of wood in the passage along the Mississippi called "La Lameda." The building site is delineated on the annexed pen-and-ink map which shows the river, the levee and the riverfront block. The proposed building site, 42 by 80 feet, straddles the Mississippi River's bank between present-day St. Louis and Toulouse streets, near Jackson Square. The four lots on that block of the Camino Real are labeled "Casa Miro," "Casa Lafond," "Casa Portier" and "terren pontalba."
In the left-hand margin of the first page the Governor, Baron de Carondelet, has written a response dated 27 July 1796 approving the petition, unless the said site proves to be necessary for the fortification or defense of the Plaza of New Orleans.
A petition with annexed map in which Trémoulet, "vecino de esta ciudad," formally asks permission to construct a bathhouse to enable the citizenry of both sexes to take healthful baths at all times of the year in the waters of the Mississippi, and to open, on the street side, a cafe which will serve refreshments to "decent persons" who traverse the thoroughfare. His building, Tremoulet asserts, will be completely constructed of wood in the passage along the Mississippi called "La Lameda." The building site is delineated on the annexed pen-and-ink map which shows the river, the levee and the riverfront block. The proposed building site, 42 by 80 feet, straddles the Mississippi River's bank between present-day St. Louis and Toulouse streets, near Jackson Square. The four lots on that block of the Camino Real are labeled "Casa Miro," "Casa Lafond," "Casa Portier" and "terren pontalba."
In the left-hand margin of the first page the Governor, Baron de Carondelet, has written a response dated 27 July 1796 approving the petition, unless the said site proves to be necessary for the fortification or defense of the Plaza of New Orleans.