Trois Rivieres

Martinique

Around 1660, Nicolas Fouquet, superintendent of the finances of Louis XIV, dreamed of founding a viceroyalty in the Caribbean, with the complicity of Lieutenant Isaac Feuquieres. So he won the largest concession ever awarded in the Caribbean: about 2000 hectares between Diamante and St. Luce. He built a real castle that was never inhabited and after the fall of the king (and his emissaries), most of the residential buildings were destroyed.