they provided them with, uh -- >> guido: yes. right. >> anthony: houses, equipment. >> guido: tools and animals and everything. >> anthony: man i used to have one of these, make pressed sandwiches i think. and that's it. "okay, now dig, grow --" the settlers quickly discovered that farming is hard work, and that the conditions in the chaco in no way resembled the new france of their dreams. that was a big snake. >> guido: so, they get broke and they decide to leave the colony. >> anthony: how many french were left at the end of the new bordeaux experiment? did any stay? >> guido: some of them, but few. >> anthony: all right. any thoughts or hopes that jean bourdain ended his life here, leaving me a vast, unclaimed stake in what is now prime cattle country turns quickly to dust.