LELEUX : Vermilion Parish Towns & Cities, Louisiana
Submitted by Kathy LaCombe-Tell
Source: Jim Bradshaw; Lafayette (LA) Daily Advertiser, 6/24/1997
Submitted August 2004

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LELEUX 

What has become known as the Leleux community, just south of Bayou 
Queue de Tortue on Hwy. 13, was first known as Bertrand Settlement. It 
was first settled by the Bertrands, and Ernest Leleux, from whom the 
current name comes, married into the Bertrand family. 

The first of the Bertrands in the area was Sylvestre Bertrand and his 
wife, Elizabeth Pavie, who settled in the curve of Bayou Queue de 
Tortue probably before 1850. 

Eve Bertrand, who married Ernest LeJoux, was the daughter of 
Sylvestre's son, Hermogene Bertrand. Ernest and Eve Leleux built a 
store on land given them by Hermogene. The store expanded until it 
included a bar, a room for men to play cards, a post office, and a 
general mercantile area. They built a dance hall next to it, then added 
a barber shop. 

With better cars and better roads, Crowley and Kaplan became the 
trading centers for the area arid the Leleux store died with its owner.