Paul, Emma, and Berthe Camors were all born in New Orleans just before the Civil War to Eliza Reidecher and Bertrand Camors.
Eliza was born in France. In many of the accounts of the Sisters, the missing link for the Camors family is their father, Bertrand. Elusive, he died early and seems to have been lost to most historical records.
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The Court of Two Sisters at 613 Royal Street (also 615 Royal Street, 614 Bourbon Street, and 139 Royal Street) has been a renown restaurant serving Creole cuisine in one of the largest courtyards in the French Quarter for nearly a century in a structure built almost two centuries ago.
The restaurant has few photos of the eponymous Two Sisters and only vague tales of their shop of “fancy goods” with asides about special visitors getting a glimpse of the prized courtyard, which has lead to sexy speculation about the mysterious sisters.
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