Named in 1922 for Dr. Joseph Alphonse Le Doux (1856-1940). Born in either France or Quebec – public records disagree – Dr. Le Doux moved 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 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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