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Anonymous ID: f1bf16 April 20, 2023, 6:52 a.m. No.18724048   🗄️.is 🔗kun

Is the Most Interesting Thing About St. Barts Its Past?

 

I don't remember ever digging on this place:

 

ROCKEFELLER & ROTHSCHILD

In 1957, David Rockefeller bought land near the stunning Colombier and Gouveneur beaches and there, he entertained luminaries like Henry Kissinger and Aristotle Onassis. Not to be outdone, Benjamin de Rothschild also bought land on St. Barts and built a sprawling estate with a private beach that later became Hotel Guanahani & Spa.

 

With rich elites and their guests frequenting the island, it didn’t take long to pique the curiosity of the world’s jet set. Tourism began in the 1960s and 1970s and St. Barts instantly became the Caribbean St. Tropez. The sophisticated metropolitan French (termed “Metros” by the locals) descended on St. Barts and opened restaurants, boutiques, hotels, and villas. This new wave of French nearly obliterated the indigenous “old French” culture that had existed on the island.

 

https://www.5thbranch.com/interesting-thing-st-barts-past/

 

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