Named in 1922 for Dr. Joseph Alphonse Le Doux (1856-1940) and/or his family. Le Doux was born in either France or Quebec – public records disagree – and came to Los Angeles with his wife and kids in 1886. Two years later, he became 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 tract he owned (or at least marketed). Tatum happened to be married to Le Doux’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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