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Fonds Saint-Jacques estate
Historic site and monument, Monastery, Listed or registered (CNMHS)
in Sainte-Marie
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The Domaine de Fonds Saint-Jacques has been listed as a "Historic Monument" since 1980. In this respect, it includes one of the rare Christian slave cemeteries in the Lesser Antilles, whose burials were studied during archaeological excavations in the 1990s.
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Fonds Saint-Jacques estate stands on a piece of land granted in 1659 to the "Prescheurs brothers of the Order of Saint-Dominique", by Marie de Saint-André-Bonnard, widow of the first governor, lord owner of the island and nephew of Pierre Belain D'Esnambuc: Jacques Dyel du Parquet.
It was founded on the site of the last battles between French settlers and Kalinagos in the so-called "Cabesterre" or "Domaine des sauvages". The Habitation subsequently experienced a long period of sugar...Fonds Saint-Jacques estate stands on a piece of land granted in 1659 to the "Prescheurs brothers of the Order of Saint-Dominique", by Marie de Saint-André-Bonnard, widow of the first governor, lord owner of the island and nephew of Pierre Belain D'Esnambuc: Jacques Dyel du Parquet.
It was founded on the site of the last battles between French settlers and Kalinagos in the so-called "Cabesterre" or "Domaine des sauvages". The Habitation subsequently experienced a long period of sugar production, which is well documented in the "Nouveau Voyage aux îles de l'Amérique..." by Father Jean-Baptiste Labat in 1722. This Dominican missionary, a multi-faceted slave-owner (architect, technician, man of war, ethnographer, pastor...), was appointed administrator of the Habitation from 1696. He made it both a place of singular enslavement and a place of remarkable innovations in sugar-making techniques.
Please note that the Domaine de Fonds Saint-Jacques is not officially open, but only occasionally.
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