Exhibit 5(a)


                                   December 27, 1999


Entergy Louisiana, Inc.
639 Loyola Avenue
New Orleans, Louisiana 70113

Ladies and Gentlemen:

     I refer to the Registration Statement on Form S-3,
including the exhibits thereto, which Entergy Louisiana,
Inc. (the "Company") proposes to file with the Securities
and Exchange Commission (the "Commission") on or shortly
after the date hereof, for the registration under the
Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the "Securities Act"),
of $436,000,000 in aggregate principal amount of its First
Mortgage Bonds (the "Bonds") and/or aggregate principal
amount of its Debt Securities (the "Debt Securities"), each
to be issued in one or more new series, and for the
qualification under the Trust Indenture Act of 1939, as
amended (the "Trust Indenture Act"), of the Company's
Mortgage and Deed of Trust, as heretofore amended and
supplemented, under which the Bonds are to be issued (the
"Mortgage"), and the Company's Indenture for the Debt
Securities, under which the Debt Securities are to be issued
(the "Indenture").  I advise you that in my opinion:

     (1)  The Company is a corporation duly organized and
validly existing under the laws of the State of Louisiana.

     (2)  All action necessary to make valid and legal the
proposed issuance and sale by the Company of the Bonds and
the Debt Securities will have been taken when:

          (a)  the Company's said Registration Statement on
Form S-3, as it may be amended, shall have become effective
in accordance with the applicable provisions of the
Securities Act, and a supplement or supplements to the
prospectus specifying certain details with respect to the
offering or offerings of the Bonds and the Debt Securities
shall have been filed with the Commission, and both the
Mortgage and the Indenture shall have been qualified under
the Trust Indenture Act;

          (b)  an Application-Declaration on Form U-1
contemplating, among other things, the issuance and sale of
the Bonds and the Debt Securities, shall have become
effective with respect to the issuance and sale of the Bonds
and the Debt Securities in accordance with an appropriate
order or orders of the Commission under the Public Utility
Holding Company Act of 1935, as amended;

          (c)  appropriate action shall have been taken by
the Board of Directors of the Company and/or by the
Executive Committee thereof for the purpose of authorizing
the consummation of the issuance and sale of the Bonds
and/or the issuance and sale of the Debt Securities;

          (d)  the proposed supplemental indenture relating
to the Bonds being issued, supplemental to the Company's
Mortgage shall have been duly executed and delivered; and

          (e)  the Bonds and the Debt Securities shall have
been issued an delivered for the consideration contemplated
by, and otherwise in conformity with, the acts, proceedings
and documents referred to above.

     (3)  When the foregoing steps applicable to the Bonds
and Debt Securities, respectively, have been taken, the
Bonds and the Debt Securities, respectively, will have been
legally issued and will be valid and binding obligations of
the Company enforceable in accordance with their terms,
except as may be limited by applicable bankruptcy,
insolvency, fraudulent conveyance, reorganization or other
similar laws affecting enforcement of mortgagees' and other
creditors' rights and by general equitable principles
(whether considered in a proceeding in equity or at law).

          This opinion does not pass upon the matter of
compliance with "blue sky" laws or similar laws relating to
the sale or distribution of the Bonds and the Debt
Securities by underwriters.

          I am a member of the Louisiana Bar and, for
purposes of this opinion, do not hold myself out as an
expert on the laws of any other state.  As to all matters of
New York law, I have relied upon an opinion of even date
herewith addressed to you by Thelen Reid & Priest LLP.

          I hereby consent to the use of this opinion as an
exhibit to the Company's Registration Statement on Form S-3
and consent to such references to myself as may be made in
the Registration Statement and in the Prospectus
constituting a part thereof.

                                   Very truly yours,

                                   /s/ Denise C. Redmann

                                   Denise C. Redmann