Named in 1922 for Dr. Joseph Alphonse Le Doux (1856-1940). Born outside of Montreal, Le Doux split his childhood years between Quebec and Paris. He moved to Los Angeles with his wife Alice and their four kids in 1886 but obtained his M.D. at the University of Maryland three years later. He returned to work as a surgeon at the French Hospital, a position he held for eleven years. (Located in today’s Chinatown, the French Hospital was founded in 1860 to treat L.A.’s French citizens; renamed Pacific Alliance Medical Center in 1989, it was finally shuttered in 2017.) Le Doux Road was named by real estate king Clifford C.C. Tatum on a Beverly Hills tract he co-owned with several investors, including Le Doux himself. Not coincidentally, Tatum was married to the doctor’s daughter: Blanche Alice Le Doux Tatum (1884-1965). No ordinary housewife, she was VP of her husband’s firm. For more on C.C.C. Tatum, see Charleville Blvd.
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