Alexis Léger better known as Saint-John Perse: The trade winds, the perfume of the hibiscus and the poetry blow between the madras of the maids.

“A Saint-Léger Léger was born of the Atlantic, writes Saint-John Perse, as one is born of Europe or America”.

“We who are of Atlantic” was an expression of the old families of the French West Indies where, in 1887, the future Nobel Prize for Literature (1960) was born. In the family island of Saint-Léger-Les Feuilles, off Point-à-Pitre. His “Atlantic” houses are those of childhood; his family, originally from Burgundy, left Guadeloupe for Pau when he was 12 years old.

In Pointe-à-Pitre, they have reconstituted -ancient maps, tiny Buddha included in a meteorite, equipment pocket items for explorer offered to one of his parents by Chateaubriand … – the office of the poet. The one of his property “Les Vigneaux” in the peninsula of Giens where he wrote “Amers” in 1957. Facing the Mediterranean … “Still very young, he confided to Conrad in 1921, hearing a person peremptorily asserting that the woman was the fifth element, I replied crudely that it was the sea, distinct for me from the water as from the ‘air.” The sea after the ocean, true residences of the poet who in “Exile” writes: “I will live in my name. “