The statue of Belain d'Esnambuc in La Savane Park in the town of Fort-de-France, Martinique. A uniformed man, possibly a police officer, is standing in the foreground. Pierre Belain, Sieur d'Esnambuc (1585–1636) was a French trader and adventurer in the Caribbean, who established the first permanent French colony, Saint-Pierre, on the island of Martinique in 1635. A vertical format negative.