Beauvoir
mansion, Biloxi, Mississippi, United States
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Beauvoir
Beauvoir, last home of Jefferson Davis, Biloxi, Mississippi.
Beauvoir was the estate near Biloxi, Mississippi, where Jefferson Davis, the president of the Confederate States of America, lived for the last 12 years of his life. Biloxi, a city on the Mississippi Gulf Coast, has a history dating back to French colonization in 1699. The area has been under the flags of France, Spain, Great Britain, the Confederacy, and the United States. Beauvoir was significantly damaged by Hurricane Katrina in 2005.1
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