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In 1925 William Faulkner, later a Nobel Laureate, wrote his first novel, "Soldiers Pay," here. The building was erected in 1840 by the widow of Jean Baptiste LaBranche on a site formerly occupied by part of the yard and buildings of the French Colonial prison.
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