Lost Letters To French Sailors Read For First Time In 265 Years
The more than 100 letters were written and sent to sailors on the Galatée between 1757 and 1758 but never delivered after the ship was captured by the British during the Seven Years War. The National Archives / Renaud MorieuxThe 100 or so letters contain sentiments of longing, bad news from home, and notes from nagging mothers.
Historian Renaud Morieux was conducting research at the National Archives in London in 2004 when he came upon a box of letters by chance.
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