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                                        • Find your slave ancestors
                                            • Find your slave ancestors
                                              • Find your slave ancestors
                                                • Find your slave ancestors
                                                                  • Find your slave ancestors
                                                                        • WWI soldiers records registration numbers
                                                                          • The French National Overseas Archives have put their collection of Martinique parish and civil status registers on-line
                                                                            • Huts or mansions… Martinique’s built heritage
                                                                              • Martinique’s movable heritage
                                                                                    • The Victor Schœlcher manuscripts on line
                                                                                      • Martinique’s archaeological heritage on-line
                                                                                                  • CESAIRE OVER THE MONTHS
                                                                                                  • What did your town look like 100 years ago?
                                                                                                      • Discovery’: guided and interactive visits
                                                                                                        • Collaborative indexing : a way of helping to develop the site
                                                                                                          • SIGMA serving our heritage
                                                                                                        • Discovery
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                    • Memories of food: food in Martinique from the 17th century to the 1980s
                                                                                                                                                                                                                      • “To write the food history of a people is to draw a portrait of its civilization.” (Auguste Escoffier, chef)
                                                                                                                                                                                                                        • The origins of Creole cuisine
                                                                                                                                                                                                                          • Food crops or cash crops, a colonial dilemma
                                                                                                                                                                                                                            • The slaves’ diet
                                                                                                                                                                                                                              • Birth of the Creole garden
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                • Mapping the ingredients of Creole cuisine
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  • Food preparation
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    • Creole cuisine in its setting: the bourgeois dining room
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      • Creole cuisine in its setting: the kitchen
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        • Creole cuisine in its setting: taverns, inns and restaurants
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          • Cooks – passing on a culinary art
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            • Creole cuisine and the seasons
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              • Recipe books
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                • An tan Robè, a 20th century food shortage (1939-1943)
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  • From macadam to McDonalds: towards new eating habits
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  • Martinican childhoods
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    • Gauguin and Martinique: “In the country of the Creole gods”, 1887
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      • A childhood marked by travel
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        • On the path to painting
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          • Gauguin and the impressionists
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            • Laval and Gauguin: the grand departure for Panama
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              • Arriving in Martinique: paradise refound?
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                • Martinique in Gauguin’s time: economy and society
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  • Politics and culture in Martinique in 1887
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    • Arts and letters in Martinique at the time of Gauguin
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      • Gauguin’s work in Martinique: a decisive experience
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        • Nature and landscape
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          • Women carrying loads on their heads and peasants: a Martinican pastoral
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            • Did Gauguin meet India in Martinique?
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              • Martinique - Pont-Aven Symbolism and Primitivism
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                • The exhibition of 1889 and the reception given Gauguin’s works
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  • Martinique – Tahiti: the tropical studio
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  • History à la carte, 1528-1856
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    • History à la carte, 1528 - 1856
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      • From the origins to the Greeks
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        • The Middle Ages and the time of the conquests
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          • The renaissance of map-making
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            • The engraving techniques used to make old maps
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              • The beginnings of modern map-making
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                • The reform of map-making
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  • Map-making at the service of power
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    • Scientific hydrography
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      • Mapping plagiarism
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        • A new era for map-making
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          • Dynamic cartography in Martinique
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        • Virtual albums
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          • Cockpits in Martinique
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            • History à la carte, 1528-1856 : the collection
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