Beachcomber Magazine 04

THE SUGAR AND THE QUILL LE SUCRE ET LA PLUME In the midst of the rolling sugar cane on the former sugar estates, three well-conserved Mauritian colonial dwellings evoke spiralling family fortunes and visionary writers from successive generations who would live in them. Au cœur des vagues de cannes de leurs anciens domaines sucriers, trois habitations coloniales mauriciennes sauvegardées évoquent la valse des fortunes familiales et des auteurs visionnaires qui s’y succédèrent. BY JEAN-PASCAL BILLAUD PHOTOGRAPHS CLAUDE WEBER MAURITIUS THE ART OF DISCOVERY 44