Inside Maison Madeleine: An 1840s French Creole Cottage Revival in Breaux Bridge

The morning light filters through the live oaks, casting dappled shadows across a wide front porch painted in Prussian blue. From somewhere inside, the scent of bacon and lost bread, what French settlers called pain perdu, drifts into the cool air. I am sitting on that porch now, coffee in hand, listening to the kind of … Continue reading Inside Maison Madeleine: An 1840s French Creole Cottage Revival in Breaux Bridge