I am unfamiliar with New Orleans' history and am confused by the article: "The Second Municipality, which the Americans controlled..." and "The First Municipality included all of the French Quarter..."<p>Then I read "In the First Municipality, English was the language of commerce and government; in the other two, French dominated."<p>Did the Second Municipality, American-controlled, have the French language dominate? Or is one of the preceding sets of statements off a bit?
A quirk resulting from this is that New Orleanians refer to medians as "neutral grounds," as there was a median separating the american sector from the french quarter where trade between the two occured(this is now canal st.).