On Tuesday 16 April, our dear President, Mr Jean-Marie Pestel, travelled over 500 kilometres from Albi to give a talk entitled: “LAPEROUSE, from Hudson Bay to Vanikoro: the human adventure of an exceptional sailor”. More than 120 people turned up at the Université du Temps Libre Choletais to hear our Chairman speak. After two hours […]
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Our long-standing member, Jacques Picard, was made a Knight of the Order of the Legion of Honour and decorated on Friday 30 June at the Toulouse Commercial Court by Mrs Belloubet, a lawyer and current Minister of Education. Originally from Brittany, Mr Picard has spent his professional career at the head of the Cobredia automotive
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It was July 1786 when La Boussole and the Astrolabe set sail from Lituya Bay, Alaska. On a simple hydrographic expedition, 21 sailors perished at sea, and the future was uncertain for the rest of the crew… This fascinating story is brought to us by Susan Stephenson, an American storyteller, photographer and guide.
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We had the pleasure of welcoming Mr Masashi Mitani to Albi from Japan with his wife, from 28 to 31 October 2023. Mr Mitani is particularly interested in the humanist work of Lapérouse. Jean-Marie Pestel took him on a tour of Albi and the Musée de la Marine in Paris, following in the footsteps of
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This is an article that appeared in the Tarn Libre on 24 November 2023 that we invite you to discover for this New Year. Between October and November 2023, cities such as Albi, Bordeaux and many others welcomed Masashi and Ryoco Mitani. The Albi Lapérouse France Association offered our Japanese contacts in charge of the
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For nearly three years, the Albigensian town council has been working on a large-scale project to pay tribute to the navigator Lapérouse. After several deliberations, the name of the space is now known: “Escale Lapérouse, worlds to explore” We invite you to visit the following websites to find out more about this initiative. The project
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Joseph Lepaute Dagelet, astronomer and mathematician, was born on 25 November 1751 in Thonne-la-Long in northern Meuse, near the Belgian border. He was the son of Pierre Lepaute, a blacksmith, and Martine Demouzon. He was the nephew of the famous watchmakers who supplied sovereigns (from Louis XV to Napoleon III). At the age of 16,
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In February of this year 2023, Mr Jim Brennan came to see ALAF (Association Lapérouse Albi France) and, especially, Jean-Marie in Albi. What was the reason? Jim is born in Alaska, but, the story that I am going to tell begins with his father. It all starts during his childhood, when Jim was on a
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DNA and genealogy for identification purposes We devoted our two previous articles to the search to identify the skeleton found on 22 November 2003 in the Vanikoro fault. We recall that it lay buried in a mass of coral, on the ship La Boussole, commanded by Lapérouse. A thesis submitted in 2007 by Coranie Lutton
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We mentioned earlier the surprising discovery of a skeleton admirably preserved more than 200 years after the sinking of La Boussole in the Vanikoro fault. The objects found in the vicinity are all clues to its identification, especially as the prerequisites limit the potential candidates to the scientists on board La Boussole, effectively excluding those
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