MARTINIQUE HAS always had the reputation of being the best terroir for sugarcane cultivation, long before Homère Clément had the imaginative idea to press these sugarcanes to produce Rhum Agricole. Domaine de l’Acajou was purchased in 1887 at the peak of the sugar crisis.

Homère Clement was born in 1852 in Trinité, a small town on the east coast of Martinique. Attending school at the Lycée of Saint-Pierre, Homère excelled in his studies and received a scholarship from the French government to attend the University of Paris, where he studied medicine. He is one of the first ever “non-white” to graduate from medical school in France.