{"id":3041,"date":"2021-04-19T14:48:08","date_gmt":"2021-04-19T13:48:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/universvoyage.com\/?p=3041"},"modified":"2022-08-01T14:18:41","modified_gmt":"2022-08-01T13:18:41","slug":"reunion-an-enchanting-world-of-plants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/universvoyage.com\/en\/reunion-an-enchanting-world-of-plants\/","title":{"rendered":"La R\u00e9union - An enchanting world of plants"},"content":{"rendered":"

Its grandiose landscapes, its wild nature and the magnificent hiking trails that criss-cross it have made the reputation of this beautiful land of France emerged in the middle of the Indian Ocean. We are \"in the perfumed land that the sun caresses\", as Baudelaire wrote in his poem \"\u00c0 une dame cr\u00e9ole\". An island with exceptional endemic flora.

Along with Mauritius, Rodrigues and a number of Mauritian islets, R\u00e9union forms the Mascareignes archipelago, named after the Portuguese navigator Pedro Mascarenhas who explored them. For a long time a simple stopover on the route to India, R\u00e9union became French in 1764. Formerly \u00cele Bourbon, its current name was changed in 1793, in reference to the \"reunion\", during the Paris Convention, of the Marseillais and several battalions of the National Guard during the assault on the Tuileries Palace. \u00cele Bonaparte in 1806, Isle of Bourbon from the time of the British occupation in 1810, then \u00cele Bourbon from 1815, it definitively regained its name in 1848.<\/p>

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