Editing Jean Lafitte (section)

==Representation in popular culture==

===New Orleans tourism===
[[Lafitte's Blacksmith Shop]] is named after him. Located on [[Bourbon Street]], it is associated with Lafitte, who may have spent time there in his earlier years. He was said to use it as a base for arranging the transfer of smuggled goods. His brother [[Pierre Lafitte]] was a blacksmith.

Constructed in the 1720s, the structure stands today as possibly the oldest building in the United States housing a [[Bar (establishment)|bar]] (Lafitte's Blacksmith Shop Bar).<ref name="Fox News">{{cite web|title=12 Oldest Places in America|url=https://www.foxnews.com/travel/12-oldest-places-in-america/|access-date=2015-03-21|work=Oldest places in America|publisher=Fox News}}</ref><ref>[http://www.lafittesblacksmithshop.com/AboutUs.html About us, Lafitte's Blacksmith Shop Bar], Website for [[Lafitte's Blacksmith Shop]]</ref>

===Literature===

Numerous novels and stories refer to Lafitte's exploits.
*Many Americans believed that [[Lord Byron]]'s epic poem ''[[The Corsair]]'' (1814) was based on the life of Lafitte; the work sold over 10,000 copies on its first day of publication, and was influential for the following century.<ref name=ramsay138and9>Ramsay (1996), pp. 138&ndash;9.</ref> 
*''The Memoirs of Lafitte, or The Baratarian Pirate; a Narrative Founded on Fact'' (1826), was a novella published anonymously and the first fiction to feature Lafitte.<ref name=davis470>Davis (2005), p. 470.</ref>  
*In [[Charles Sealsfield]]'s novel ''Tokeah; or the White Rose'' (1829, rev. ''The Indian Chief; or, Tokeah and the White Rose'', 1829), Jean Lafitte plays a key role.  
*Charles Gayarre wrote the first serious biography of Lafitte, ''Historical Sketch of Pierre and Jean Lafitte, the Famous Smugglers of Louisiana'' (1883).<ref name=ramsay139>Ramsay (1996), p. 139.</ref> Other biographies followed.
*Lyle Saxon wrote the novel ''Lafitte the Pirate'' (1930).
*Ruby Lorraine Radford published a children's story, “Victor and the Pirate: A Story of New Orleans During the War of 1812” (1947), featuring a child who encourages Lafitte to defend New Orleans.<ref>R.L. Radford, “Victor and the Pirate: A Story of New Orleans During the War of 1812,” Childcraft (Vol. 5 – ''Life in Many Lands''), pp. 129-135 (Chicago: Field Enterprises, Inc., 1947)</ref>
*[[Lee Falk]]'s ''Phantom'' comic strip story, "The Vault of Missing Men" (1979–1980), pitted Jean Lafitte against one of the historical Phantoms. [[The Phantom]] eventually married Lafitte's (fictional) sister Jeanette. Falk wrote that Lafitte was buried in a special vault in the [[Skull Cave]], thus rewriting the details of his death.
*In the second book (1984) of the ''[[Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark]]'' children's trilogy, Confederate blockade runner captain Louis Billings is said to catch sight of the ghost of Lafitte's ship, the ''Pride'', describing it as "a strange, old fashioned schooner with a big black flag" that was "afire with a sort of weird, pale blue light that lighted up every nook and cranny of her". 
*[[Simon Hawke]] uses the young Lafitte as a minor character in his science-fiction novel ''[[TimeWars|The Pimpernel Plot]]'' (1984), set in Paris in 1791. He features Lafitte as an adult in his sequel, ''[[TimeWars|The Nautilus Sanction]]''; the Time Commandos visit Barataria.
* [[Poppy Z. Brite]]'s 1991 short story "The Sixth Sentinel," collected in ''Wormwood'', features Lafitte as the narrator. He is a ghost enamored of a beautiful stripper whom he calls Hard Luck Rosalie. He tries to persuade her to dig up some of his treasure so that they can be together. 
*In [[Image Comics]]'s [[WildC.A.T.s]], issue 20 (1995), Jean Lafitte is revealed to be a daemonite alien invader named Hightower.
*In the popular Japanese manga/anime series ''[[One Piece]]'' (1999), the character Lafitte is named after Jean Lafitte.
*Chilean author [[Isabel Allende]] used the historic Lafitte as a figure in her novel ''[[Zorro (novel)|Zorro]]'' (2005), based on an American hero of that name from pulp fiction. 
*French comics script-writer [[Marc Bourgne]] and [[Franck Bonnet (artist)]] created a series called ''Les pirates de Barataria'' (Glénat éditeur, Paris, 2009)
*Jean Laffite is a character in the historical fiction novels ''Theodosia and the Pirates: The Battle Against Britain'' (2013) and ''Theodosia and the Pirates: The War Against Spain'' (2014), by [[Aya Katz]].
*Jean Lafitte is a character in the (2014) science-fiction, mystery novel ''Atlantic Pyramid'' by [[Michelle E. Lowe]]. 
*Tom Cooper uses Lafitte's name and treasure in his novel ''The Marauders'' (2015). 
*Suzanne Johnson features a living Lafitte in her urban fantasy series, ''The Sentinels of New Orleans''. 
*In [[Michael Punke]]'s novel ''[[The Revenant (novel)|The Revenant]]'' (2002), Jean Lafitte and his pirate colony Campeche play an important role in the life of the protagonist.
*Jean Laffite is a character in the historical fiction novel ''Ashes & Ecstasy'' by Catherine Hart, published in 2000 by Leisure Books (first published November 1, 1985).

===Film===
[[Image:Bayou.jpg|thumb|alt=Daylight photo of canal with tree branches stretching from the banks over the canal.|Part of the Barataria Preserve in [[Jean Lafitte National Historical Park and Preserve]]]]
*Saxon's novel was adapted for the [[Cecil B. DeMille]] movie ''[[The Buccaneer (1938 film)|The Buccaneer]]'' (1938),<ref name=ramsay141>Ramsay (1996), p. 141.</ref> starring [[Fredric March]] as Lafitte.
*In 1950 [[Paul Henreid]] starred in another movie about Jean Lafitte entitled ''[[Last of the Buccaneers]]''.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20090114022342/http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/title/39755 The Last of the Buccaneers (1950)] bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people</ref> It was directed by Lew Landers and produced by Sam Katzman. 
*In 1958 [[Anthony Quinn]] directed a remake of ''[[The Buccaneer (1958 film)|The Buccaneer]],'' starring [[Yul Brynner]] as Lafitte, and [[Charlton Heston]] as General [[Andrew Jackson]].  
*''The Pirate Island of Jean Lafitte'' (1998), an 18-minute film directed by C. Grant Mitchell, is screened year-round at the Pier 21 Theater in Galveston.<ref>{{citation|last=Mitchell|first=Grant|title=The Pirate Island of Jean Lafitte |work=Galveston.com|url=http://www.galveston.com/pier21theatre/|access-date=2009-11-29}}</ref>

===TV=== 
In a fifth-season episode of the long-running Western series ''[[Bonanza]]'' ("The Gentleman from New Orleans") an elderly man (played by [[John Dehner]]) claiming to be Lafitte appears. (It is never established in the episode whether this claim is true or not.) Since the series is set in the early 1860s, this is clearly some 40 years or so after the historical Lafitte's reported death.

===Lafitte's Journal===
In 1948, [[John Andrechyne Laflin]] approached the [[Missouri Historical Society]] with a French-language manuscript he claimed was a journal Lafitte kept from 1845 until 1850.<ref name=ramsay147>Ramsay (1996), p. 147.</ref><ref name=ramsay148>Ramsay (1996), p. 148.</ref> When the historical society could not authenticate the claim, Laflin approached Louisiana author [[Stanley Arthur]]. He wrote ''Jean Laffitte: Gentleman Rover'', based on the journal. 

In 1958, Laflin self-published an English translation of the journal. He refused to allow anyone else to see the original documents until 1969, when he sold them to a professional document dealer.<ref name=ramsay148/> The paper and ink were analyzed and confirmed to be of mid-19th-century origin. An archivist for [[Bexar County, Texas]], declared the papers to be authentic.<ref name=ramsay149>Ramsay (1996), p. 149.</ref>

In 1980, the manuscript was donated to the [[Sam Houston Regional Library and Research Center]] in Texas. For the first time, it was made available for research.<ref name=ramsay149/>  Many researchers noticed a similarity between John Laflin's handwriting and the writing in the journal.<ref name=ramsay149/> Handwriting analysis experts affirmed that conclusion.<ref name="nickell73"/> Laflin had been previously accused of forging letters purportedly from [[Abraham Lincoln]], [[Andrew Jackson]], and [[Davy Crockett]].<ref name=nickell73>Nickell (2005), p. 73.</ref> Most historians now believe the Lafitte journal to be a forgery.<ref name=ramsay150>Ramsay (1996), p. 150.</ref><ref group=Note>Ramsay believes the documents were written by Laflin's ancestor, Matthew Laflin (1803&ndash;1854), who may have convinced his descendants that he was Jean Lafitte.(Ramsay (1996), pp. 151&ndash;2.)</ref>

===Role-playing game===
*[[Call of Cthulhu (role-playing game)|''Call of Cthulhu'']]'s New Orleans source book has Jean Lafitte alive and organizing global occult activity in 1920s New Orleans.
* ''[[Nancy Drew: Legend of the Crystal Skull]]'' (PC 2007) uses Jean Lafitte as a code to call a New Orleans secret society to order.

=== Breakfast cereal advertising mascot ===
* In the 1960s and 70s a barefoot cartoon pirate named [[Cap'n Crunch#Brand characters|Jean LaFoote]] appeared in animated television advertisements for the breakfast cereal [[Cap'n Crunch]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.advertisingweek360.com/legend-jean-lafoote/|title=The Legend of Jean LaFoote – Advertising Week 360 • AW360|date=26 February 2018 |access-date=Mar 1, 2021}}</ref> 

===Disneyland===
[[Disneyland]] memorializes Lafitte with a ship anchor monument and accompanying plaque in [[New Orleans Square (Disneyland)|New Orleans Square]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://disneyparks.disney.go.com/blog/2012/08/disneyland-park-then-and-now-lafittes-anchor/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120821141911/http://disneyparks.disney.go.com/blog/2012/08/disneyland-park-then-and-now-lafittes-anchor/|url-status=dead|archive-date=August 21, 2012|title=Then and Now: Lafitte's Anchor at Disneyland Park|website=Disney Parks Blog|date=20 August 2012 |access-date=Mar 1, 2021}}</ref> The [[Pirates of the Caribbean (attraction)|Pirates of the Caribbean]] ride has a boat dock labeled LaFitte's Landing.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.laweekly.com/20-things-you-may-not-know-about-disneylands-pirates-of-the-caribbean-ride/|title=20 Things You May Not Know About Disneyland's Pirates of the Caribbean Ride|date=Mar 28, 2017|website=LA Weekly|access-date=Mar 1, 2021}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://medium.com/disneys-land/history-and-a-behind-the-scenes-look-at-the-pirates-of-the-caribbean-attraction-in-disneyland-3072c75fee3b|title=History and a Behind the Scenes Look at the Pirates of the Caribbean Attraction in Disneyland|first=Christian|last=Taylor|date=Apr 30, 2020|website=Medium|access-date=Mar 1, 2021}}</ref>