Coteau Bourgeois, Louisiana | |
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Coordinates: 30°15′38″N 90°45′29″W / 30.26056°N 90.75806°W | |
Country | United States |
State | Louisiana |
Parish | Livingston |
Elevation | 7 ft (2 m) |
Time zone | UTC-6 (Central (CST)) |
• Summer (DST) | UTC-5 (CDT) |
ZIP code | 70449 |
Area code | 225 |
GNIS feature ID | 534149 [1] |
FIPS code | 22-17720 |
Coteau Bourgeois is an unincorporated community in Livingston Parish, Louisiana, United States. The community is located 5 miles (8.0 kilometres) southeast of French Settlement and 8 miles (13 kilometres) west of Sorrento.[2] The site is on Louisiana Highway 22 and is one mile south of Head of Island on the Amite River.[3]
In the French language the word Coteau means Hill and Bourgeois was the name for a wealthy class of French citizens in the late 18th century.