(Bourbon Street, 1721) The Complete History of the French Royal Street That Became a Party Icon

When a French engineer laid out the streets of New Orleans in seventeen twenty-one, he named one of them after the royal house that ruled France. For almost two centuries it was an ordinary residential street of Creole cottages, floods, fires and funerals, far from anything resembling a party. This documentary follows how Spanish rule, the Louisiana Purchase, jazz, Prohibition and the tourism boom of the twentieth century turned a quiet colonial lane into the loudest eight blocks in the United States, and what the people who actually live there think about what it became. AI CONTENT NOTICE: This documentary was produced with artificial intelligence. Images and narration are illustrative recreations based on historical research.