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Slipped between the pages of a book, these moving 18th-century letters shed new light on the tragedy of the Lapérouse expedition
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Découverte par le plus grand des hasards, cette correspondance a été authentifiée comme provenant de la célèbre expédition La Pérouse, partie de Brest en 1785 et échouée trois ans plus tard dans l'Océan Pacifique. Un des plus grands naufrages de l'histoire.
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