title: The Memoirs of Jean Laffite
author:  Jean Laffite 
description: A liking for colorful characters, including history professors, and a weakness for barbecued chicken, led Gene Marshall, an associate professor of languages at McNeese State University in Lake Charles, Louisiana, to a conversation at a McNeese State History Department picnic with Dr. Tom Watson, recently retired Head, about a manuscript in French alleged to have been written by Jean Laffite. Though he is the object of a two-week-long festival in Lake Charles, Laffite's renown comes from his role in the Battle of New Orleans. Dr. Watson wanted to know if Marshall would take a look at a photocopy of the Laffite manuscript and use his literary background and knowledge of French and Spanish to help solve the mystery of the origin of the Journal of Jean Laffite? A journey of a thousand miles starts with one step, and the publication of the Memoirs of Jean Laffite is only a continuation of the voyage of discovery started on that May afternoon in 1998.
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  Jean of the Lazy A  
    
    
    
  CHAPTER I. HOW TROUBLE CAME TO THE LAZY A  
    
  CHAPTER II. CONCERNING LITE AND A FEW FOOTPRINTS
  
  
    
    
  CHAPTER III. WHAT A MAN'S GOOD NAME IS WORTH  
    
  CHAPTER IV. JEAN  
    
  CHAPTER V. JEAN RIDES INTO A SMALL ADVENTURE  
    
  CHAPTER VI. AND THE VILLAIN PURSUED HER  
    
  CHAPTER VII. ROBERT GRANT BURNS GETS HELP  
    
  CHAPTER VIII. JEAN SPOILS SOMETHING  
    
  CHAPTER IX. A MAN-SIZED JOB FOR JEAN  
    
  CHAPTER X. JEAN LEARNS WHAT FEAR IS LIKE  
    
  CHAPTER XI. LITE'S PUPIL DEMONSTRATES  
    
  CHAPTER XII. TO "DOUBLE" FOR MURIEL GAY  
    
  [CHAPTER XIII. PICTURES AND PLANS AND MYSTERIOUS
  
  
  FOOTSTEPS  
    
  [CHAPTER XIV. PUNCH VERSES PRESTIGE  
    
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  LEADING LADY THEY WOULD MAKE OF JEAN
  
  
    
    
  [CHAPTER XVI. FOR ONCE AT LEAST LITE HAD HIS WAY
  
  
    
    
  [CHAPTER XVII. "WHY DON'T YOU GIVE THEM SOMETHING
  
  
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  [CHAPTER XVIII. A NEW KIND OF PICTURE  
    
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