Wealth and Disaster: Atlantic Migrations from a Pyrenean Town in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries

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 Clairence. In the New World, they both settled in Saint—Martin—du—Dondon, where t...