Les Trois-Îlets

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Les Trois-Îlets
Location of the commune of Les Trois-Îlets in the Martinique department
region Martinique
Department Martinique
Arrondissement Le Marin
Community association Espace Sud de la Martinique
Coordinates 14 ° 32 ′  N , 61 ° 2 ′  W Coordinates: 14 ° 32 ′  N , 61 ° 2 ′  W
height 0-400 m
surface 28.60 km 2
Residents 7,339 (January 1, 2017)
Population density 257 inhabitants / km 2
Post Code 97229
INSEE code 97231

Les Trois-Îlets is a commune in the overseas department of Martinique . It belongs to the Arrondissement of Le Marin . Until its dissolution in 2015, Les Trois-Îlets was the main town ( Chef-lieu ) and the only municipality in the canton of the same name .

Population development

year 1961 1967 1974 1982 1990 1999 2006 2007 2011
Residents 3,238 3,153 3,002 3,246 4,484 5,162 6,843 7,084 7,607

  • “La Pointe du Bout” in the center of Les Trois-Îlets

  • The church "Notre-Dame de la Bonne-Délivrance des Trois-Îlets"

  • Maison de la Canne

  • Decommissioned steam locomotive of the Train Maison de la Canne en Martinique that has been put up as a monument

Plantation of the Joséphine de Beauharnais

Former kitchen house in the plantation of the future Empress Joséphine , now a museum

The future French Empress Joséphine was born on June 23, 1763 in the one-story plantation house La Pagerie , which is no longer standing . As early as August 1766, a hurricane destroyed the building, which was made entirely of white wood. Around 1230 hectares of fertile land belonged to the plant, mostly sugar cane and cocoa plantations , which were worked by 300 slaves . The closely lined up huts of the slaves were in the immediate vicinity of Joséphine's birthplace. The building itself was in the middle of the grounds so that the work of the slaves could be monitored from there. The house was surrounded on three sides by a veranda. Tamarind , mango and frangipani trees grew in the garden behind . The house's large, paneless windows were open to the outside. Only the stone kitchen house, which houses a museum, has survived to this day. Compared to the total of about 400 other plantations that originally stood on Martinique, the plant was relatively small and modest.

The lands may still play an important role in the history of French colonialism. It could have been due to Joséphine's influence that Napoléon reintroduced slavery, temporarily abolished by the French Revolution , in 1802. This was the reason for the slave revolt in the French colony of Saint-Domingue , which should lead to the independence and establishment of Haiti .

Web links

Commons : Les Trois-Îlets  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kate Williams: Joséphine. désir et ambition. Laffont, Paris 2013, pp. 6-7.
  2. ↑ Kate Williams: Joséphine. désir et ambition. Laffont, Paris 2013, p. 11.
  3. ↑ Ludolf Pelizaeus: Colonialism. History of European expansion