Pierre Force: 1 book
Wealth and Disaster
Atlantic Migrations from a Pyrenean Town in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2016
In 1729, Marc-Antoine Lamerenx, a minor French nobleman, set sail for Saint-Domingue. Twenty years later, peasant Jean Mouscardy also made the long and difficult journey to Saint-Domingue. Although the men were not related and had little in common, they hailed from the same Pyrenean town, La Bastide...
