Desire Street

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Desire Street is a famous street in New Orleans, Louisiana. According to John Horne, the name is a misspelled homage to a lover of Napoleon named "Desiree". The famous play A Streetcar Named Desire refers to the transportation line to this street. It is also the title of a book by Jed Horne, and part of the title of a book by John Churchill Chase. The Desire neighborhood in the upper 9th Ward is named after the street, as are the area's Desire Projects.

[edit] References

• John Churchill Chase (1997). Frenchmen, Desire, Good Children And Other Streets Of New Orleans, 3rd edition. Touchstone.  ISBN 0-684-84570-9

• Jed Horne (2005). Desire Street: A True Story of Death and Deliverance in New Orleans.. Farrar, Straus, and Giroux.  ISBN 0-374-13825-7

[edit] See also

• Famous streets of New Orleans