The Faubourg Treme was one of the first places in the southern United States where free African Americans owned property at a time when slavery still existed.

BBC: New Orleans outside of the French Quarter

Fittingly, Van der Straeten lives with his partner, the shoe designer Bruno Frisoni in a former cabinetmaker's workshop in the Faubourg Saint-Antoine, the district historically devoted to such pursuits.

WSJ: Herve Van Der Straeten's Design World | Designer

Franklin Street marks the official boundary where Faubourg Marigny gives way to bohemian Bywater, and like most neighbourhoods in New Orleans, the line between slightly dodgy and do-not-walk-here-at-night begins to blur.

BBC: New Orleans outside of the French Quarter

The Faubourg Marigny neighborhood, just a few blocks away from the French Quarter, is home to a cosmopolitan mix of immigrants and working class, artists and musicians, along with some of the best-preserved architecture in New Orleans.

BBC: New Orleans outside of the French Quarter

Despite the convenient Hotel de Ville metro station just near my flat, I have become one of the growing number of militant Paris cyclists, cycling to work and back every day up the Rue de Rivoli and then back home on the Rue de Faubourg-St Honore.

BBC: Caroline Wyatt cycling through Paris