Trois Islets - Not tonight Josephine?
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Date 1800
– 12 February 2011 Trois Islets’ claim to fame in addition to being a very
attractive small town and day trip destination is to be the birthplace of the
Empress Josephine, the first wife of Napoleon. Her father was the owner
of a sugar plantation that is now a museum in her memory. Well it may be in Trois Islet if you have a motor car; we are getting
very used to coping without the use of one so made the 3,6km journey ‘en
pied’ as they say. Due to a fire and relative poverty the family lived in the upper part
of the mill, now a well preserved ruin.
Beautiful gardens and a visitors centre now occupy what was the central
yard of a working slave laboured sugar plantation.
The museum is housed in
the old kitchen looking remarkably as if it had just been plucked from the
Returning to Trois Islet we were unable to get access to the church
where Josephine’s mother is buried.
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