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Heritage, visit, Local heritage in MartiniqueHABITATION BEAUSEJOURM. DE FOSSARIEU Quartier Beauséjour 97218 GRAND'RIVIERE 97218 Grand'Rivière (Martinique)
Phone : 05 96 55 70 61
Housing Beauséjour is a property of the 17th century. well preserved, where the features of Martinique homes are present, the colonial House Master Street box-nègres. Formerly devoted to sugar cane, exploitation has retained an amazing water wheel and a channel necessary to irrigate the land, power house in drinking water...Accommodation based around 1670 testifies to the economic and social organization of the 18th century to the present day: 1811 House, 1793 outdoor kitchen, pool, Sundial and street "black boxes". Beauséjour canal, built by slaves between 1800 and 1810 on 4 km was used to power the home drinking water and irrigation. Only the Knight family was from a Patriarch of color Martinique, Amédée Alexis Augustin Knight, engineer of the Ecole Centrale de Paris, became Senator of Martinique in 1899. Grower and Distiller in Saint-Pierre, he acquired this land at the beginning of the 20th century, in a context of sugar crisis where the bankruptcy of homes were commonplace. Despite this, the operation was under his direction astonishing prosperity. It passed with a surface of 136 hectares to 285 hectares and was equipped with a distillery that produced a quality rum, 'rum H.B.S.' gold medalist at the colonial exhibition in Paris in 1932. It is also at this time, between 1900 and 1912 that the House took the name of Beauséjour. When the heirs of Amédée Knight sold the estate, in 1928, to "beke" Pierre François Honoré Fossarieu Lucy Louis, it was again enlarged 50 hectares. We continued to grow sugarcane and produce the rum, while cocoa declined in favour of secondary crops such as maize, beans and sweet potato. It was only after World War II development of banana growing permanently supplanted the previous productions. Louis de Lucy de Fossarieu, owner since 1928, will make the H.B.S. rum a renowned rum during the first half of the 20th century. In 1959, the cultivation of cane will be abandoned in favor of the banana. And in recent years, Jean-Louis, the grandson returned to the tradition of the cane
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