With the end of the Ancien Régime, the civil authorities and religious leaders renamed the city Bouillante.

The king wanted to make Guadeloupe a colony of settlement based on the family small-scale farming and the introduction of volunteers.

After 1960, the commune knew major upheavals with the departure of a great number of young people for the cities.

It lies between the communes of Pointe-Noire to the north, Vieux-Habitants to the south, and Petit-Bourg to the east.

Agriculture, fishing, the craft industry and geothermics still play a large part in the local economy.