Parcours du patrimoine | Le Saint-Esprit, Rivière-Pilote

Rivière-Pilote and Le Saint-Esprit are two strikingly rugged rural communes, turned inland, where the agricultural development has led to this unique layout of the area, combining large sugarcane properties with small coffee- and food-producing ones. Once the heart of a dense communication network, one of them a key administrative centre, but set back from the new fast roads of the 1980s, these two charming communes have preserved rural areas and striking landscapes whose rare beauty and urban heritage are among the most remarkable on the island.

Christophe Charlery

Born in 1972, heritage architect, graduated from the Ecole de Chaillot in 2001. Specialising in domestic architecture in the former French territories of the West Indies, he headed up the restoration and redevelopment project at Habitation Clément and the Habitation La Sucrerie from 2003. A successful candidate in the 2009 competition for State Architects and Town Planners, since 2010 he has worked as an Architecte des Bâtiments de France in the Grand Est region.

Publication available in bookshops and at the Habitation Clément gift shop.

Format 110 x 225 – 48 pages

Paperback – ISBN 9782357202788

Retail price: €8

Co-published by HC Editions / Fondation Clément / Martinique Cultural Affairs Department

Editorial coordinators:
Christophe Bourel Le Guilloux, Architect and Town Planner for the State, Architecte des Bâtiments de France
Florent Plasse, Head of Heritage, Fondation Clément

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