New Orleans was founded by the French in 1718, transferred to Spain in 1762, returned to France in 1800, sold to the United States in 1803, and shaped by the largest forced migration in American history into something that does not fit neatly into any of those categories. The city that exists as a result is architecturally French, legally Napoleonic in its property code, … [Read more...] about New Orleans: An American City That Plays by Different Rules