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The House That Sugarcane Built: The Louisiana Burguières

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The House That Sugarcane Built tells the saga of Jules M. Burguières Sr. and five generations of Louisianans who, after the Civil War, established a sugar empire that has survived into the present.

When twenty-seven-year-old Parisian immigrant Eugène D. Burguières landed at the Port of New Orleans in 1831, one of the vital oldest Louisiana dynasties started. Seen through the lens of one circle of relatives, this book traces the Burguières from seventeenth-century France, to nineteenth- century New Orleans and rural south Louisiana and into the twenty-first century. It is usually a wealthy portrait of an American region that has retained its vibrant French culture. As the sweeping narrative of the clan unfolds, so does the story of their circle of relatives-owned sugar business, the J. M. Burguières Company, as it plays a pivotal role within the expansion of the sugar industry in Louisiana, Florida, and Cuba.

The French Burguières were visionaries who knew the value of land and its bountiful resources. The fertile soil along the bayous and wetlands of south Louisiana bestowed on them an abundance of sugarcane above its surface, and salt, oil, and gas beneath. Ever in pursuit of land, the Burguières expanded their holdings to include the vast swamps of the Florida Everglades; then, in 2004, they turned their sights to cattle ranches at the great frontier of west Texas.

Finally, integral to the story are the complex dynamics and tensions inherent on this circle of relatives-owned company, revealing both failures and victories in its history of more than 135 years. The J. M. Burguières Company’s survival has depended upon every generation safeguarding and nourishing a legacy for the next.

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