In 1814 he wagered his beloved home in a poker game and crushingly lost the one thing he treasured most in life. Although Jourdan dearly adored his beautiful home, he was a man that could never quench his thirst for the thrill and excitement of gambling. “Pierre Antoine Lepardi Jourdan built his dream home restoring it to the original grandeur, for his family and himself. Let's have a look at it from their website:
Most of them are telling the tale as they heard it 3rd and 4th hand without even checking Muriel’s version of the story.
Ghost tour guides stand at the doorway, encouraging tourists to peer in while they tell, ad nauseum, how Pierre inherited that building from his father and promptly lost it in a card game leaving his mother homeless for which he committed suicide by (depending on the tour guide telling the tale) gun shot, hanging, jumping out a window.whatever. Muriel’s has a “Ghost Table” set up at the end of their carriageway which is reserved for the ghost Pierre Antoine Lepardi Jourdan. But it does matter to those who are interested in learning about and preserving the amazing history of this amazing city. There is so much crap out there being passed off as “accurate” and “authentic” that it is positively galling! It doesn’t really matter to many tourists who only see New Orleans as a giant theme park and ghost tours are to be enjoyed with Mardi Gras beads (in July), a t-shirt that reads “I Put Ketchup On My Ketchup” (whatever that means!) and a Huge-Ass Beer in hand.
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