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| Saint-Pierre was the former primary city of France`s Caribbean department d`outre-mer of Martinique. It was never the capital except in an economic sense. It was destroyed on May 8, 1902 when the volcano Mount Pelee erupted, killing over 29,000 people, which was the entire population of the town, as well as people from neighboring villages who had taken refuge in the supposedly safe city. |
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