Léon Compère-Léandre
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l-on-comp-re-l-andre-188-18576553
title:
Léon Compère-Léandre
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Léon Compère-Léandre (1874?–1936) was a Martiniquais shoemaker in Saint-Pierre on the French Caribbean island of Martinique when Mount Pelée erupted on May 8, 1902, and destroyed the town. He was one of only 2 known survivors. His own description of the morning of May 8, 1902, follows.
I felt a terrible wind blowing, the earth began to tremble, and the sky suddenly became dark. I turned to go into the house, with great difficulty climbed the three or four steps that separated me from my room, an
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Martiniquais shoemaker
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C3%A9on_Comp%C3%A8re-L%C3%A9andre
date created:
2005-09-04T09:50:14Z
date modified:
2024-09-09T02:57:37Z
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