Alice was the daughter of New Orleanian Jean Baptiste LePretre and Marie Sophie Andry. She was raised in a home on the corner of Orleans and Dauphine Streets in the French Quarter.
The wife of cottonseed extractor and New Orleans social patron, Jules Jean Aldige' Alice married Jules in New Orleans, Louisiana on January 23, 1858. They had the following children:
*Marie Louise Aldige'
*Jules Jean Aldige' II
*Alice Marie Aldige'
*Anna Marie Aldgie'
*Georges Aldige'
*Amelie Louise Aldige' Borde
*Marie Leonie Aldige'
Family matriarch Alice Aldige', daughter Amelie Borde and granddaughter Amy Borde died in the sinking of the steamship La Bourgogne in the Atlantic Ocean on July 4, 1989. Traveling at full speed in dense fog, the ship collided with the British sailing ship Cromartyshire about 60 nautical miles south of Sable Island. The crew of the steamship acted in murderous fashion, especially towards the women and children passengers by throwing them overboard, out of life rafts, and cutting life lines to the life boats. Nearly every first class passenger perished, only one woman was saved and every child on board died. The event shocked and outraged the entire world and was the inspiration for the maritime law "women and children first" in order to insure such a tragedy from happening again. It is to the memory of Alice, Amelie and Amy [Borde] that the statue above the Aldige' tomb features two women in grief, holding on to one other at the bow of a boat. This is one of the more notorious monuments at Metairie Cemetery, photographed often and featured in mortuary architecture books. They were lost at sea and not buried in New Orleans and their names are not engraved on the monument.
**Other New Orleans residents who perished in the shipwreck were Mrs. Pauline Costa Langles and her daughter, Miss Angele Langles. Angeles has a notorious monument at Metairie as well.
The wife of cottonseed extractor and New Orleans social patron, Jules Jean Aldige' Alice married Jules in New Orleans, Louisiana on January 23, 1858. They had the following children:
*Marie Louise Aldige'
*Jules Jean Aldige' II
*Alice Marie Aldige'
*Anna Marie Aldgie'
*Georges Aldige'
*Amelie Louise Aldige' Borde
*Marie Leonie Aldige'
Family matriarch Alice Aldige', daughter Amelie Borde and granddaughter Amy Borde died in the sinking of the steamship La Bourgogne in the Atlantic Ocean on July 4, 1989. Traveling at full speed in dense fog, the ship collided with the British sailing ship Cromartyshire about 60 nautical miles south of Sable Island. The crew of the steamship acted in murderous fashion, especially towards the women and children passengers by throwing them overboard, out of life rafts, and cutting life lines to the life boats. Nearly every first class passenger perished, only one woman was saved and every child on board died. The event shocked and outraged the entire world and was the inspiration for the maritime law "women and children first" in order to insure such a tragedy from happening again. It is to the memory of Alice, Amelie and Amy [Borde] that the statue above the Aldige' tomb features two women in grief, holding on to one other at the bow of a boat. This is one of the more notorious monuments at Metairie Cemetery, photographed often and featured in mortuary architecture books. They were lost at sea and not buried in New Orleans and their names are not engraved on the monument.
**Other New Orleans residents who perished in the shipwreck were Mrs. Pauline Costa Langles and her daughter, Miss Angele Langles. Angeles has a notorious monument at Metairie as well.
Alice was the daughter of New Orleanian Jean Baptiste LePretre and Marie Sophie Andry. She was raised in a home on the corner of Orleans and Dauphine Streets in the French Quarter.
The wife of cottonseed extractor and New Orleans social patron, Jules Jean Aldige' Alice married Jules in New Orleans, Louisiana on January 23, 1858. They had the following children:
*Marie Louise Aldige'
*Jules Jean Aldige' II
*Alice Marie Aldige'
*Anna Marie Aldgie'
*Georges Aldige'
*Amelie Louise Aldige' Borde
*Marie Leonie Aldige'
Family matriarch Alice Aldige', daughter Amelie Borde and granddaughter Amy Borde died in the sinking of the steamship La Bourgogne in the Atlantic Ocean on July 4, 1989. Traveling at full speed in dense fog, the ship collided with the British sailing ship Cromartyshire about 60 nautical miles south of Sable Island. The crew of the steamship acted in murderous fashion, especially towards the women and children passengers by throwing them overboard, out of life rafts, and cutting life lines to the life boats. Nearly every first class passenger perished, only one woman was saved and every child on board died. The event shocked and outraged the entire world and was the inspiration for the maritime law "women and children first" in order to insure such a tragedy from happening again. It is to the memory of Alice, Amelie and Amy [Borde] that the statue above the Aldige' tomb features two women in grief, holding on to one other at the bow of a boat. This is one of the more notorious monuments at Metairie Cemetery, photographed often and featured in mortuary architecture books. They were lost at sea and not buried in New Orleans and their names are not engraved on the monument.
**Other New Orleans residents who perished in the shipwreck were Mrs. Pauline Costa Langles and her daughter, Miss Angele Langles. Angeles has a notorious monument at Metairie as well.
The wife of cottonseed extractor and New Orleans social patron, Jules Jean Aldige' Alice married Jules in New Orleans, Louisiana on January 23, 1858. They had the following children:
*Marie Louise Aldige'
*Jules Jean Aldige' II
*Alice Marie Aldige'
*Anna Marie Aldgie'
*Georges Aldige'
*Amelie Louise Aldige' Borde
*Marie Leonie Aldige'
Family matriarch Alice Aldige', daughter Amelie Borde and granddaughter Amy Borde died in the sinking of the steamship La Bourgogne in the Atlantic Ocean on July 4, 1989. Traveling at full speed in dense fog, the ship collided with the British sailing ship Cromartyshire about 60 nautical miles south of Sable Island. The crew of the steamship acted in murderous fashion, especially towards the women and children passengers by throwing them overboard, out of life rafts, and cutting life lines to the life boats. Nearly every first class passenger perished, only one woman was saved and every child on board died. The event shocked and outraged the entire world and was the inspiration for the maritime law "women and children first" in order to insure such a tragedy from happening again. It is to the memory of Alice, Amelie and Amy [Borde] that the statue above the Aldige' tomb features two women in grief, holding on to one other at the bow of a boat. This is one of the more notorious monuments at Metairie Cemetery, photographed often and featured in mortuary architecture books. They were lost at sea and not buried in New Orleans and their names are not engraved on the monument.
**Other New Orleans residents who perished in the shipwreck were Mrs. Pauline Costa Langles and her daughter, Miss Angele Langles. Angeles has a notorious monument at Metairie as well.
Inscription
"In memory of mother, sister, niece lost on Steamship La Bourgogne"
Gravesite Details
Cenotaph
