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Cutting through the heart of the French Quarter, Bourbon Street runs about thirteen blocks from Canal Street to Esplanade Avenue and is, for many visitors, shorthand for New Orleans nightlife. Its name has nothing to do with the whiskey; the royal engineer Adrien de Pauger laid out the Quarter's grid in the early 1720s and named the street for the House of Bourbon, the family then ruling France. The city itself had been founded a few years earlier, in 1718. For roughly its first century and a h...