Female Enterprise: Women Business and Property Owners in New Orleans, 1819-1927. Louisiana Division. New Orleans Public Library

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ROSALIE TRAPPEL Rosalie Trappel (or Trappet or Tropet), a native of France, owned a restaurant, La Bourse, at 71 Chartres St. It operated for several years before Trappel left the city. By the end of 1856, she was running the Restaurant de l’Europe in San Francisco. Trappel died there in the following year.
	In 1851, Trappel filed suit against her creditors. The petition in that suit notes an earlier location for the restaurant and a prior partnership in the business with Charles Larronche (an act in the Notarial Archives shows that their joint venture began in 1849 and ended in February 1851. (Rosalie Trappel vs Her Creditors. Orleans Parish Second District Court, #4172)
	The suit record also includes this statement of Trappel’s assets and liabilities, providing some details about the contents of her establishment. Other pages of the document show the names of the wine dealers and other merchants who supplied the restaurant. (Rosalie Trappel vs Her Creditors. Orleans Parish Second District Court, #4172)