Note 238 — Chapter XVI
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Mons. P. has, I understand, endowed a place in New Orleans for the education of female orphans.—Nuttall.
Comment by Ed. The institution was on Julia Street, west of Carondelet, and was built in 1814. In addition to Poydras’s gift, it received $4,000 from the state. This was not Poydras’s only philanthropic deed. A college “for indigent females” was established at Pointe Coupée in 1829, on an endowment of $20,000, bequeathed by him.