The Supreme Court of Louisiana Historical Society invited its constituency to the 1825 Civil Code Bicentennial Commemoration. The Louisiana Bar Foundation was the Presenting Sponsor. Co-chaired by ...

In the spring of 1825, Ludwig van Beethoven was struck by a gut ailment so severe that he thought he might die. That summer, after he recovered, he returned to the string quartet he’d been writing ...

They went on to become politicians, captains of industry, prominent lawyers, clerics, and, in the case of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and Nathaniel Hawthorne, giants of literature. Two centuries after ...