on one of her more notorious ventures as hostess, she organized a grand outing to the new french colony at nouveau bordea bordeaux, french colony. she wanted all of society to join her? right. magnificent steamer was engaged for the party. there were ladies and madam lynch. once on board, as the story goes, those mean bitches treated their hostess like so much trash. so she got upset and threw off board all of the food that they were supposed to eat. she had it all thrown in the river? yes. [ laughter ] then she ordered the captain to stop the boat and let her guests just sit there in that jungle heat for hours. throwing tubs of caviar, whole roasted pigs into the river in front of these starving aristocrats, somehow that
the paraguay river, still as it was 150 years ago, the country s main artery, a thoroughfare for transporting people and goods. so who lives out there? all the people we see fishing out on the river banks, are they fishing for dinner? most of them are fishing for dinner. call them poor people, but what is poor? they decide for themselves to live here. they could go and start working on a construction place tomorrow. he has organized a trip upriver to see new bordeaux,
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bordeaux. that? this. wow. that s kind of not how i pictured it. doesn t look like bordeaux to me. there s nothing much left of nouveau bordeaux. i m told a small museum of artifacts. the site where the colony once briefly existed is now called something else. the money for its settler. perhaps there was a communication breakdown somewhere, and he might have told the paraguayans, i m bringing the finest farmers france has to offer and he might have told these french men, you ll get free property, you don t have to do anything, reach up into the trees and fruit and gold bars are dropping. [ dogs barking ]
the end of the new bordeaux experiment? did any stay? some of them, but few. all right. any thoughts or hopes that my great, great, great-grandfather ended his life here leaving me a vast, unclaimed stake in what is now prime cattle country turns quickly to dust.