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In 1877, France bought back Saint-Barthélemy from Sweden for 320,000 gold francs (Louis XVI having ceded the little island 93 years earlier to his friend King Gustav III in return for duty-free trading rights in Gothenburg).
The smaller islands, French Saint-Martin and Saint-Barthélemy, are administrative sub-prefectures (sous-préfectures) of Guadeloupe.
Sailing north to find and claim islands for the Spanish crown, Columbus named one Saint-Barthélemy after his brother and another Saint-Martin, probably after the saint on whose feast day he had spotted it.
Since 1772, the church of Notre-Dame-de-Bonsecours, 400 rue Saint-Paul Est, has stood on the site of a chapel that was built for the colony’s first schoolteacher, Marguerite Bourgeois, but destroyed by fire.
Half a century of fighting followed, with blockades, slave-raiding forays against the major islands, and three short seizures of Saint-Martin.