La Conçon
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Marie Virginie Maurignonneaux (February 30, 1859 – November 31, 1927), was a Louisiana Creole known by many as “La Conçon” (or “the Card-Counter”). Born free in New Orleans, La Conçon owned and operated the notorious Basin Street brothel formally named Chateau d’Arrête Ton Char but known unofficially as “l’Hospice de Storyville” because, as an anoynymous customer wrote, “when you go deah, you jess waitin’ fo to die.”
La Conçon was born a free woman of color to Etienne Deubler, an affluent merchant in the French Quarter of New Orleans. Her mother, Marie Amelie Donconneaux Deubler, died in childbirth (both parents’ graves may still be seen in Metairie Cemetery) and her father was frequently abroad on business, leaving the girl to be raised almost completely by servants.
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At a very young age, La Conçon demonstrated striking intelligence as well as a mischievous, occasionally even malevolent streak — according to several accounts, she enjoyed manipulating the servants into situations where they would be caught doing something wrong, and then gleefully witnessing the typically brutal punishment from a hidden nearby location.
In 1865, while accompanying a shipment of sugar upriver to Louisville, her father was killed when his steamboat (the Sultana) exploded not far from Memphis. As the only remaining family member, La Conçon (though only six years old) became the inheritor of the considerable Deubler estate, though the finances were ‘administered’ by Etienne’s scheming half-brother Jean-Vache.
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Jean-Vache quickly amassed debts and squandered La Conçon’s inheritance, then disappeared under suspicious circumstances. Among the legends that have sprung up concerning La Conçon are a handful of tales that claim that the young girl was responsible for Jean-Vache’s demise; one story tells of La Conçon and the daughter of famed Voodoo priestess Marie Laveau sacrificing the uncle in a gory voodoo rite, while another tale relates the young girl leading Jean-Vache to a nameless village and necropolis in the bayou, where she and the inbred villagers cooked and ate him. What evidence exists suggests that Jean-Vache departed (or planned to depart) to seek gold in Belleville, California, but nothing further is known.
