Archaeologists recovered a number of fragments of faience rouge pots, burned and shattered in the 1822 fire that destroyed the Rising Sun Hotel. While there was no way to determine for certain if this was “the” Rising Sun, or even if the location was a brothel, the concentration of cosmetic jars is suggestive of an association with commercial sex. Even more so, they speak to the city’s emerging notoriety as a place where ‘Frenchness’ was commodified and linked to the illicit.