Ludger Sylbaris, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Martiniquis criminal
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Place of Birth: Martinique, France
About Ludger Sylbaris
- Ludger Sylbaris (1 June 1874 – c.
- 1929) was an Afro-Caribbean man who was one of two survivors in the city of Saint-Pierre on the Caribbean island of Martinique during the devastating volcanic eruption of Mount Pelee on May 8, 1902.
- Saint-Pierre, known as the "Paris of the West Indies", was in the direct path of a pyroclastic flow, which destroyed the city and killed an estimated 30,000 people.Sylbaris later travelled with the Barnum & Bailey circus and became something of an early 20th-century celebrity.
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