The House That Sugarcane Built: The Louisiana Burguières
Donna Mcgee Onebane, "The House That Sugarcane Built: The Louisiana Burguières"
English | ISBN: 1617039527 | 2014 | 288 pages | PDF | 8 MB
English | ISBN: 1617039527 | 2014 | 288 pages | PDF | 8 MB
The House That Sugarcane Built tells the saga of Jules M. Burguières Sr. and five generations of Louisianans who, after the Civil War, established a sugar empire that has survived into the present.
When twenty-seven-year-old Parisian immigrant Eugène D. Burguières landed at the Port of New Orleans in 1831, one of the oldest Louisiana dynasties began. Seen through the lens of one family, this book traces the Burguières from seventeenth-century France, to nineteenth- century New Orleans and rural south Louisiana and into the twenty-first century. It is also a rich portrait of an American region that has retained its vibrant French culture. As the sweeping narrative of the clan unfolds, so does the story of their family-owned sugar business, the J. M. Burguières Company, as it plays a pivotal role in the expansion of the sugar industry in Louisiana, Florida, and Cuba.
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