Mandeville

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Mandeville, Louisiana

Mandeville is a city in St. Tammany Parish, Louisiana, United States. The population was 11,560 at the 2010 census. Mandeville is located on the North Shore of Lake Pontchartrain, south of Interstate 12. It is across the lake from the city of New Orleans and its southshore suburbs. It is part of the New Orleans–Metairie–Kenner metropolitan area.

Etymology

Mandeville is the name of two villages in Normandy, France. It means "big farm" (from Magna Villa) in medieval Norman French.

History

The area had long been agricultural land when the town of Mandeville was laid out in 1834 by developer Bernard Xavier de Marigny de Mandeville, more often known as Bernard de Marigny. In 1840 Mandeville was incorporated as a town. It became a popular summer destination for well-to-do New Orleanians wishing to escape the city's heat.

In the mid-19th century, regular daily steamboat traffic between New Orleans and Mandeville began, and by the end of the Victorian era, it had become a popular weekend destination of the New Orleans middle class as well. Bands would play music on the ships going across the lake and at pavilions and dance halls in Mandeville, and the town became one of the first places where the new "jazz" music was heard outside of New Orleans. Bunk Johnson, Buddy Petit, Papa Celestin, George Lewis, Kid Ory, Edmond Hall, Chester Zardis, and many other early jazz artists regularly played in Mandeville.

Mandeville (novel)

Mandeville, a tale of the seventeenth century (1817) is a three volume novel written by William Godwin.

Plot Summary

Orphaned at a young age due to his family’s involvement in the English colonization of Ireland, Charles Mandeville is brought up in England by his reclusive uncle Audley Mandeville. His sister, Henrietta, is brought up by family friends. Charles attends Winchester school, where he is falsely accused of possessing a subversive print of Charles I and becomes jealous of the most popular boy, Lionel Clifford. He later discovers that an unprincipled boy named Mallison was responsible. The stain on Charles’s reputation stays with him through his time at Oxford University, and is compounded by a misunderstanding about his involvement in a failed royalist plot. It was assumed that he was a coward for not taking part, but the role he was promised was unexpectedly given to Clifford. Charles becomes insane and is taken to a lunatic asylum in Cowley and then nursed back to health by Henrietta. Lord Montagu attempts a reconciliation between Charles and Clifford, but this fails. Mallison and his uncle, Holloway, become involved in managing Audley’s Mandeville’s estate. When Audley dies, Charles keeps them on, even though he knows that they are corrupt. Clifford converts to Catholicism while exile in Belgium, making Charles dislike him even more. Clifford and Henrietta fall in love while at Lord Montagu’s house. On what he thinks is the eve of their marriage, Charles attempts to kidnap Henrietta, but the marriage has already taken place and he is wounded in the face by Clifford.