At the end of the XVIII ime century, the day before the French revolution, Saint-Domingue is the most invaluable jewel of the French colonial Empire testifying to a happy prosperity. If one the Western third of the island of Hispaniola conceded by the Spaniards in 1697 by the treaty of Ryswick exports indigo, coffee, tobacco and invaluable wood, it mainly owes its prosperity with its sugar industry. That Ci puts it at the head cane sugar producers. This industry takes its true rise only after 1763, the shortly after the Seven Year old war. It will cover the colony of a vast network of dwellings, each more functional and more modern day starting from the flat rich person of North. The colonists who, for multiple reasons, seem to have attached little price to their own house, haggled over no expenditure to equip their factory with sumptuous installations sometimes justifying the stone importation of size and slates of the colonial metropolis.

Developed very tardily, the plain of the Bottom of Bag, between Port-au-Prince and the Brackish pond, will be able to profit from last technical acquisitions technical acquisitions and last architectural progress, where they existaients already, the industrial complexes for the majority rebuilt or will be refitted.

From 1770, the industrial complexes are high, except certain alternatives, according to a standard plan which, while allowing a substantial economy of water and energy, and by facilitating the organization of the operations, saves their time. Only deus forms of energy is used: the hydraulic force and animal haulage, actuating the animal mill respectively. According to its availabilities out of water and the importance of the production, the dwellings use either the water mill or the animal mill or more rarely both.

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