Trinidad’s French Legacy
Trinidad’s French Legacy, by Anthony de Verteuil, C.S.Sp., a typically spirited “series of sketches” of Trinidadian French Creole culture, by one of the Caribbean’s most tireless and readable social historians. Not a definitive survey — which de Verteuil explains “would involve several volumes and did not appeal to me” — it rather collects biographical essays on eleven key historical figures such as the historian Gustave Borde, the ornithologist Antoine Leotaud, the journalist Philip Rostant, and the artist Michael-Jean Cazabon, with chapters on Catholicism and Carnival for good measure. Drawing both on Trinidad’s public archives and various collections of family papers, the volume is replete with names, dates, anecdotes, and family trees, plus old photographs, maps, and drawings — and frequent injections of the author’s bone-dry wit.
Litho Press, ISBN 978-976-95299-0-8, 380 pp
[from Caribbean Book Review]
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