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AZ Martinique goes one step further in providing information about the island on our website, offering you information about the historical events that have marked or even transformed Martinique.

  • Ouvriers en grève dans les rues
    February 1974
  • Esclaves travaillant dans un champs de canne à sucre
    January 1839: Martinique shaken!
  • Painting by Eugène Delacroix, July 28
    February 1794: the non-abolition of slavery
  • Aimé Césaire
    March 1946: 70 years of departmentalization!
  • Charles de Gaulle in Martinique
    March 23-24, 1964: De Gaulle in Martinique, a popular extravaganza
  • Georges Henry Bush and Francois Mitterrand shake hands at Habitation Clément
    March 14, 1991: The day America "discovered" Martinique
  • Boat from Martinique to the Panama Canal
    Martinique's heavy toll on the Panama Canal
  • Illustration of young Lubin crossing paths with Augier de Maintenon and Pellet de Lautrec.
    September 1870: Southern Insurrection
  • Ouvriers agricoles avec contremaîtres à cheval
    December 1959: Martinique under tension
  • Capture of Fort Saint Louis in 1794, painting by Williams Anderson
    December 1795: The landing at Le Vauclin