Le Carénage/L'Orient

[cassidain]

Carénage est un quartier de Saint-Barthélemy dans les Caraïbes. Il est situé dans la partie centre-ouest de l'île entre Saint-Jean, Lurin et Morne Criquet. C'est l'un des plus petits quartiers de l'île. Par ailleurs, Le Carénage est l'ancien nom du bourg de Gustavia avant 1787[1].

I've noticed some forum folk are wont to refer to Lorient (modern spelling) as L'Orient (historical spelling). Not sure why, but perhaps those might want to refer to Gustavia by its name from the same époque ? Le Carénage - the place where boats'/ships' bottoms are repaired, repainted, resealed with oakum, etc.

Modern day Carénage is a district #20 on this map:

 

[cec1]

Carénage est un quartier de Saint-Barthélemy dans les Caraïbes. Il est situé dans la partie centre-ouest de l'île entre Saint-Jean, Lurin et Morne Criquet. C'est l'un des plus petits quartiers de l'île. Par ailleurs, Le Carénage est l'ancien nom du bourg de Gustavia avant 1787[1].

I've noticed some forum folk are wont to refer to Lorient (modern spelling) as L'Orient (historical spelling). Not sure why, but perhaps those might want to refer to Gustavia by its name from the same époque ? Le Carénage - the place where boats'/ships' bottoms are repaired, repainted, resealed with oakum, etc.

Modern day Carénage is a district #20 on this map:
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Very interesting factoid, Cass! Re: Lorient vs L’Orient, the latter was the spelling in my early years of visiting SBH — I don’t know when (or why) the apostrophe was dropped, but I finally stopped using it after being repeatedly corrected on my “misspelling.”