Classic New Orleans Creole: Commander's Palace and Galatoire's

By Lolis Eric Elie

NAPOLEON BONAPARTE DIED IN exile on the island of Saint Helena, but it didn’t have to be that way. Nicholas Girod, a former mayor of New Orleans, offered the defeated emperor lodging at the Napoleon House (today a French Quarter bar of some renown) — such was the level of Francophile fervor in old New Orleans as late as 1821, 18 years after the Louisian…