[1] In 1802, Denis de La Ronde was appointed to Louisiana (New Spain)'s governing authority, the Cabildo, at the behest of his late brother-in-law, Andrés Almonaster y Rojas, to succeed him as Regidor Perpetuo, Councilman for Life.
Paris Road remains the farthest downriver route connecting the River to the Lake in Greater New Orleans.
In 1903, executives of the St. Louis–San Francisco Railway (known more commonly as the "Frisco Railroad") engaged in negotiations to purchase large tracts of land in St. Bernard Parish "up to the Orleans Parish line" as part of their plans of "gigantic scope" to further the expansion of the company's rail lines and operations facilities across Louisiana.
As part of this plan, they proposed relocating the residents of the nearby village of Fazendeville, a historically Black community, to Versailles, which was described in one newspaper report as a "settlement consist[ing] merely of a row of very small properties along a public road running at right angles from the river to the railroad track."
On December 23, 1814, General Andrew Jackson learned of the advances and position of the British encampment from Colonel Pierre Denys de La Ronde and his son-in-law, Major Gabriel Villeré.
[12] A few ruins remain visible along Highway 46 in St. Bernard Parish, as does the Southern live oak allée that once graced the path from the Mississippi River landing to the manor house.