Modeste, Louisiana is an unincorporated village in Ascension, Parish, Louisiana.

[1] The community is located along the Mississippi River on Louisiana Highway 405, north of the parish seat of Donaldsonville, between Hohen Solms (area of the Germania-Elise Plantation),[2] and Philadelphia Point, due south and across the river from Geismar.

Modeste was the home of sugar cane plantation owner Leonard Julien (1910-1994) that invented a sugarcane-planting machine[3][4] Julien lived in the old Babin Place that he purchased from Dr. John Harvey Lowery.

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