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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

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

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

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

The passage of the bridge of Tanus is an occasion to discover the fortified village of Sauveterre de Rouergue, cradle of the Résseguier du Pouget family.We leave the road from Rodez to Naucelle-gare, to go towards the villa of Naucelle, then a few kilometers beyond towards the bastide of Sauveterre.The ramparts have disappeared, but one

«Mystère La Pérouse» Born in Nantes (France) in 1944, Alain CONAN was the founder of “Association Salomon” (1981). The purpose of the Association was to attempt to elucidate the fate of the vessels led by Jean-François de Galaup, Comte de La Pérouse. The La Pérouse expedition, under orders from king Louis XVI, left Brest in

A little background At the beginning of 1772, Lapérouse left for the Isle of France with his protector Arsac de Ternay who had just been appointed commander general.From there, in April 1773, he undertook a long expedition in the Indian seas.He returned to Isle de France in March 1774 and returned to France in May