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Wikimedia Commons The statue of King Louis IX, the namesake of the City of St. Louis, has stood atop Art Hill in Forest Park since 1906.
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Isabelle Heidbreder has lived in St. Louis for 22 years. She s the executive director of Alliance Française de St. Louis.
A walk around St. Louis is a subtle reminder of how the French have influenced the city. Street names such as Laclede and Chouteau refer to fur trader Pierre Laclède and his stepson Auguste Chouteau, who constructed a trading post here in 1764. They named it St. Louis after Louis IX, a 13th-century French king who achieved sainthood in 1297.
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