The Grande Eperviere Barcelonnette Hotel & MEXICO
Discovering the Americas
Always open to trade and exchange, the Valley’s economy has long relied on the textile activity involving woolen mill and silk mills. The people of Ubaye trained very early to “the art of being merchant” left the valley to go sell their production of linen and silk in Provence, Dauphine, in Piedmont, in Flanders …
This hotel in Barcelonnette is called “Villa Mexican” because its history dates back to the mid-nineteenth century, when the permanent emigration replaces seasonal emigration and led entrepreneurs of the Valley to the Americas, first in Louisiana French Remembering, and in Mexico, where Jacques Arnaud (1781 – 1828) moved to 1818 – 1820 a fabric store associated with his brothers Dominique and Mark Antony, paving the way with silky Mexico. Preferred destination since the Second Empire, Mexico will concentrate the largest emigrants Ubaye community called Barcelonnettes, giving rise to several generations of industrialists, traders and bankers, who will be the “preferred partners” (John Meyer) of the young republic of the United States of Mexico between 1870 and 1910.
FÊTES LATINO – MEXICAINES
These holidays are a time to celebrate the unusual historical link between Barcelonnette and Mexico.
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