Hi, Carol, I grew up in the general location of St. Michael's Catholic Church and School in New Orleans in the 50's. As I remember, some nearby streets were Race and Annunciation Sts. When I did a search, it appears that St. Michael's is now St. Michael's Special School, 1522 Chippewa St, which is in the same general location. Also, if you go to http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/browse/-/577394, and then search: St Michael's Parish, New Orleans, La, you will find a title for information on St. Michael's Church, Disappearing parish: Demographic-socio-economic-Michaels. While this books does not seem to be available, you could try checking the New Orleans Public Library, Louisiana Division / City Archives & Special Collections 504 596-2610 Third Floor http://www.nutrias.org/~nopl/info/info.htm Or the Historic Collection of New Orleans http://www.hnoc.org/ to see what information they have. Hope this helps. Rose -----Original Message----- From: laorlean-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:laorlean-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Carolyn Long Sent: Sunday, April 13, 2008 5:59 PM To: Orleans Parish listserve Subject: [LAORLEAN] St. Michael's Catholic School In doing a web search, I found at the website for the Archdiocese of New Orleans Collection, University of Notre Dame Archives some correspondence dated 1850 between Madame Annette Praz, headmistress of the school at St. Michaels and Archbishop Anthony Blanc in New Orleans, asking Blanc to "arrange with Mrs. Placide Forstall not to send Laure back to school, as she gives a bad example." Three months later Madame Praz wrote again, reminding Archbishop Blanc that the issue of Laure Forstall had not yet been resolved. She had heard that Laure was planning to return, and she asked Blanc to persuade Mrs. Forstall to keep her daughter at home, lest she be "obliged to send her away later." Within a few days Placide Forstall came to ask why the school no longer wished to have Laure, and Madame Praz "explained Laures conduct of last year and that they could not in conscience keep pupils who wronged others by their bad spirit, insubordination, etc." Forstall promised that "if Laure ! does not give more satisfaction, he will withdraw her immediately." Laure Forstall was Delphine Macarty Lalaurie's granddaughter. Does anybody know anything about St. Michael's School? I assume that it was a Catholic Girls' School and that it was in Louisiana, but not in New Orleans. --- Carolyn Long --- carolynlong@earthlink.net