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“...MARTINIQUE 309
One of the principal hotels overlooks the Savane, an
open park in the centre of which is a statue of the
Empress Josephine in her coronation robes from the
chisel of Vital Debray. It is surrounded by tall royal
palms. The Empress has her head turned towards
Trois Ilets across the Bay where she was born on June
23rd, 1763. Her father, M. de la Pagerie, a planter,
was practically ruined by a terrible hurricane in 1767
through which 1,600 persons perished.
Martinique was also the home of Fran$oise d’Aubigné,
who first married Scarron the dramatist and afterwards
became the wife of Louis XIV.
iUso overlooking the Savane are the Government
Offices, the Post Office and the Bibliothèque Schoelcher.
The latter, a curiously Eastern-looking building with a
dome and overhanging roof, contains a library and a
museum of plaster casts, ceramics, etc., bequeathed by
Victor Schoelcher (1804-1893), who was mainly respon-
sible for securing the emancipation of the slaves in
1848. In Place...”
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“...the, sell their Virgin
Islands to United States,
314. 315
Danish West India and Guiana
Co., 315
Dardis, Michael, 234
Darien, 417
Darrell, Rev. J., 193
Darwent, Mr. Walter, 443
d’Aubigné, Fransoise, 309
" Dauntless Island,” 382
Davers, Admiral, 269
Davis, Bishop, 226
Davis, Mr. N. Darnell, 84
Davison, Newman & Co., 446
Davson, Sir Henry Katz, 380-1
Dawlish Bounce, 94
Dead-man’s Chest, 250
Deane, Richard, 105
Debé, 115
de Bellair, M., 158
de Bouillé, Marquis, 145, 174,
222, 225, 236, 337
Debray, Vital, sculptor, 309
de Brettes, Mr. C., 179
de Caillus, M., 159, 160
de Cerillac, Count, 154
de Choiseul, Due, 178
de Cordova, Fernandez, 427
de Crespigny, Captain, 272
de Enciso, Martin, 417
Defiance, the, Drake's ship, 400
Defoe, Daniel, 143, 148
de Grasse, Count, 169, 178,
216, 222, 237, 244-5, 305,
308
De Guichen, Admiral, 245
de Heredia, Pedro, 400
De Kinderen, 373
deLaborie, Baron, 169,171,178
de la Pagerie, M., father of
Empress Josephine, 309
de Leon, Juan PonGe, coloniser
of Porto Rico, 326...”
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