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Anthony Bourdain Parts Unknown-20160101-22:24:15

Anthony Bourdain Parts Unknown-20160101-22:24:15
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Anthony Bourdain Parts Unknown-20160101-22:25:00

>> from france, yes. >> what city, do you know? >> my great, great, great grandfather was from near bordeaux. so i'm curious about this whole episode about the settlement of new bordeaux. ♪ ♪ >> the paraguay river, still as it was 150 years ago, the country's main artery, a thoroughfare for transporting people and goods. ♪

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Anthony Bourdain Parts Unknown-20160101-22:19:00

>> he showed madam lynch to his father, and his father was upset. so she was put aside. >> and kept as a mistress? >> and that was the way paraguayan society wanted to treat her. and she wanted to be treated as the -- >> princess? >> yes. >> tell me about madam lynch's famous boat trip. on one of her more notorious ventures as hostess, she organized a grand outing to the new french colony at nuevo bordeaux. she wanted all of society to join her? >> right. >> magnificent river 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

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Anthony Bourdain Parts Unknown-20160101-22:26:00

>> 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, what was hoped would be a new france in the chaco. >> fish we bought today, 14 kilo. >> right. >> that's half a month's salary, and you get with bit of good luck in one night. >> right. ♪

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Anthony Bourdain Parts Unknown-20160101-22:30:00

>> there were the indians coming down the river and killing everybody. there was the langua who if you entered the country, you are good food. >> right. did the paraguayans ever see this as a utopia? >> no. >> i'm sure not. >> what we have is nueva bordeaux. >> wow. that's kind of not how i pictured it. doesn't look like bordeaux to me. ♪ >> there's nothing much left of nuevo bordeaux. i'm told a small museum of artifacts. the site where the colony once briefly existed is now called -- >> was stealing money from each settler.

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Anthony Bourdain Parts Unknown-20160101-22:29:00

so i'm curious about this whole episode of the settlement of new bordeaux. >> there came about 400 people. they were supposed to be about 1,000. they were supposed to be most of them farmers. but just 86 were farmers. >> who were the other people? >> they were tailors, they were shoe makers, musicians. >> teachers and artists, and they was put in the jungle and left by themselves. >> why here of all the places in the world? people talk about the chaco as hell. ♪ i mean, it's hot here. it's dry. it's wet. it's fetid. if's difficult. >> mosquitoes. and you have all the ticks and vermin. >> a flatland of cactus and thorns and misery and cannibals.

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Anthony Bourdain Parts Unknown-20160101-22:32:00

>> my aunt used to have one of these, made pressed sandwiches i think. and that's it. okay, now, dig, grow. the settlers quickly discovered that farming was hard work and the conditions in the chaco in no way resembled the new france of their dreams. >> so they get broke and they decide to leave the colony. >> how many french were left at the end of the new bordeaux experiment? did any stay? >> some of them, but few. >> all right. any thoughts or hopes that jean bourdain ended his life here leaving me a vast, unclaimed stake in what is now prime cattle country turns quickly to dust. ♪

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Anthony Bourdain Parts Unknown-20160101-22:39:00

with madame lynch. >> madame lynch was fond of things like french couture. >> yes. and that changed the way of dress. >> madam lynch might have been good for business. i try to put this in a light i can be enthusiastic about, like how clearly forward-thinking my relatives were. his customers were a hat maker, the very people that treated madam lynch with utter contempt, did they live in the old colonial homes, the mansions we see still? that type of residence? >> yes. >> times were changing in south america too, in those days. society ladies craved the latest in french fashion. there was money to be made. ah, i'm bummed. ♪ >> after this episode with the new bordeaux group came a triple alliance war. >> jean bourdain died in 1858. >> yes. >> it was a good time to die,

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