At FORT-DE-FRANCE, in Martinique today, you find turn of the-century buildings housing French cafes and designer boutiques. In fact, the inhabitants of Martinique are French citizens with full political and legal rights.
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At the beginning of the 20th Century, St. Pierre – then the capital of Martinique – was a flourishing port city with a population of nearly 40,000. It was so cosmopoliton that it was dubbed the ‘Little Paris of the West Indies’. Mont Pelee, the island’s highest mountain, provided a scenic backdrop to the city.
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The Eastern Caribbean lies northeast of South America. Once inhabited by Carib Indian tribes, European colonialists took over the islands in the 1600s bringing in African slaves to work their plantations. Today the population reaches nearly 3 million, these islands are a hybrid of African, English and French heritage.
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