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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 […]

It is now twenty years since teams discovered a skeleton in its entirety off the coast of Papua New Guinea. A series of articles published over the coming months will enable you to (re)discover the story of this unknown creature. On 1 August 1785, La Boussole and l’Astrolabe, two frigates commanded respectively by Jean-François Galaup

A French island located more than 9,000 km from the mainland holds a treasure submerged in the clear waters of the Indian Ocean. Off the coast of Reunion Island, nearly 96 miles to the northwest, you’ll have to dive almost 60 meters from the surface to discover Mont La Pérouse. It is a landform also

Raymond A. Duranton, a member of ALAF, has kindly allowed us to publish his article which appeared in note #23 of the CEIPP Domain. We would like to thank him on behalf of the members of ALAF. You can download the original ici. Polynesian Navigators Introduction Don’t look for it – if you still have

One cannot speak of Lapérouse without mentioning his teenage friend Jean-Baptiste Mengaud de la Hage (1741-1780). His parents lived in Toulouse and it is not clear why he attended high school in Albi, but La Pérouse declared: “our friendship dates back to high school”. Mengaud had been a sea guard in Toulon as well as

Book to read Author : Elisabeth Rivoire Publication date 30/01/2020 Publisher Oskar Collection Roman Format When Lapérouse prepared his expedition to circumnavigate the world, he took on board the young Barthélemy de Lesseps. Arriving in Siberia, the latter’s mission was to bring back a trunk containing the maps, letters, sketches collected during his journey to

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

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

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