A conference entitled “In the footsteps of Monsieur de Lapérouse, an ethnologist’s view of Vanikoro” presented by Mr. Christian Coiffier, ethnologist at the MNHN will take place at the village hall of Montirat Saint-Christophe on July 9, 2022 at 5:00 pm. Mr. Coiffier was a member of the 2018 expedition. Christian Coiffier was trained as
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The author Louis Ernest Lesage, known by the pseudonym Sahib or Ned (Paris, January 8, 1847 – May 31, 19191), was a French watercolor painter and caricature illustrator. Lesage studied at the Collège Sainte-Barbe in Paris. He abandoned a maritime and military career and devoted himself to drawing. He started in 1866 at La Vie
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For his sailing trip in the wake of Lapérouse, Hubert Furco leaves Marseillan next week. Hubert wrote to us: “The idea since I am considering this cruise is to some extent to follow part of the route taken by Lapérouse. I also understood that the association wanted to leave a trace on the places of
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The pupils of the Ce1 /Ce2-Cm1/Cm2 sections of the Florentin school visited the Lapérouse museum in Albi accompanied by Jean Marie Pestel de Lapérouse, himself. Clément Sicard, the school’s director, thanked ALAF for this guided tour which allowed the students to deepen their knowledge of Lapérouse. He said: “It’s a pity that we didn’t have
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The flour mills are an innovation of the Lapérouse expedition, known to the point of becoming a symbol of the silhouette of at least one ship.It is also known that Captain de Langle was very inventive, especially in the field of culinary instruments for the health of the crews, which had to be preserved in
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As part of the creation of a new space dedicated to the navigator Lapérouse and his expedition, the City of Albi organizes on June 23 at 18:30, at the Athanor hall, an evening dedicated to the progress of this project with the program some previews presented by the mayor Stéphanie Guiraud-Chaumeil. Yves Bourgeois, director of
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Western food is traditionally based on the consumption of cereals, and in particular of different kinds of wheat, one of them being buckwheat, appreciated by Breton crews, which would have anti-scorbutic properties. On land, as this was an indispensable product, the control of cereals, like that of salt, was a privilege (for which the King
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Jean-Baptiste Barthélemy de Lesseps was born in Sète on 27 January 1766 He spent his childhood in Hamburg and then St. Petersburg where his father was a consul. At the age of 12, he already spoke Russian, German, Spanish and French. After 5 years of study at the Jesuit College in Versailles, he returned to
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Many scientists, all men of great merit, participated in the expedition: an astronomer, a physician, three naturalists, a mathematician, three draftsmen, physicists, an interpreter, a watchmaker, a meteorologist, as well as priests with scientific training. The objectives were numerous: geographical, scientific, ethnological, economic (prospecting for whale hunting or fur collection possibilities), but also political with
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In his book: “Le Maréchal de Castries” (1979 Editions Albatros) the Duke of Castries, in addition to an amusing evocation of Albi, mentions on pages 106 and 107 a letter from Lapérouse to Suffren written on September 22, 1787 in the Bay of Avastscha. The quoted part has for object the enthusiastic approval of the
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