Charles L. Dufour
Charles L. "Pie" Dufour (1903–1996) was an American
New Orleans Mardi Gras, law, local sports, classical music, New Orleans cuisine, and European travel.[2]
Dufour lived his entire life in New Orleans, except to serve in the
US Army in World War II in a non-journalistic role. He enrolled at Tulane University for college in 1921, although he commenced his career with newspapers before completing his degree.[3] He ultimately completed his college degree in 1953.[3] Dufour was awarded an honorary doctorate of humane letters by Tulane University in 1978, after retiring as a newspaper columnist.[3]
Together with fellow local historian John Churchill Chase, he taught a course on New Orleans history at Tulane University for 25 years.[1] Dufour referred to this course as "New Orleans on the Half Shell" as an acknowledgement of its emphasis on food and culture.[3] Dufour was a member of the gourmet group in New Orleans called "La Societe des Escargots Orleanais".[3]
A 1967 article in The New York Times characterized Dufour as a columnist and historian "who has devoted most of his professional life to the idea that history is news".[4]
Selected works
- Charles L. Dufour, John Chase, Walter G. Cowan, Osborne K. Leblanc, John Wilds. New Orleans, Yesterday and Today: A Guide to the City ISBN 978-0807127438
- Charles L. Dufour, The Night the War was Lost, University of Nebraska Press, 1994, ISBN 978-0-8032-6599-8.
- Charles L. Dufour, The Mexican War: A Compact History 1846 – 1848, Hawthorne Publishers, 1968.
- Charles L. Dufour, Gentle Tiger: The Gallant Life of Roberdeau Wheat, Louisiana State University Press, 1999, ISBN 0807123919.
- Charles L. Dufour, Ten Flags in the Wind: The Story of Louisiana. Harper & Row Publishers, 1967.
References
- ^ New Orleans Times-Picayuneobituary for Pie Dufour, May 28, 1996.
- ^ Tulane University Special Collections, Manuscripts Collection 90,779, Accessed November 25, 2011.
- ^ a b c d e Lind, Angus (June 2015). "Legendary Raconteurs". Tulane Magazine: 40.
- ^ John K. Bettersworth, The New York Times, September 24, 1967.
External links
- Copies of Pie Dufour's A La Mode column are available through the historical archives maintained by the New Orleans Times-Picayune newspaper.
- An extensive collection of research papers, notes, and publications by Charles L. Dufour is maintained by the Louisiana Research Collection of the Howard-Tilton Memorial Library of Tulane University.
- A photograph of Charles "Pie" Dufour is available on-line courtesy of the Louisiana Digital Library of the University of Louisiana Lafayette.
