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Fortunes sea, 1: Industrial Heritage tragedies

lot to say on this topic I have not taken the time to say. Of books that I wanted to report some discussion that I wanted to pursue, and of course my little winks archival - all documents on which I fell and I did no real use for my research but I still want to share. Because writing of history is about making choices, doing without material because, quite simply, it does not correspond to the historical object that is sought to implement.

A remark elsewhere: one of the surest marks of the "work of scholarship" as opposed to the work of a historian is that precisely the factoids that scholar has found in its archives, he can not refrain from inflicting his readers - and, in the deplorable biography the Marquis de Montalembert published two years ago, the author can not help but share in a chapter devoted to industrial activities of the Marquis of pregnancy a woman attributes to works of the footman de Montalembert , and the amount of money paid by him to avoid prosecution.

I must admit that this is not always easy, to remember. Hence the usefulness of having a blog in which spill - and this is clearly one of the functions of this topic.

Since I work at an establishment that, from 1776 in law (and since 1755 actually) directly to the Department of the Navy, I had to sift evil series Archives of the Navy. Normal. And like a lot of these series are following the "general service" department, I find many things that have little to do with my subject, but rather are stories of this that it is customary to call fortunes sea Examples.

Tragedies

Sometimes, of course, the tragedy of the sinking. I cited the case of the seamen from the water by the monks of Saint-Mathieu, the outcome is not always as happy, as for those in distress near Dunkerque Fecamp:

S. Masson Commissioner classes in port by reporting on the sinking of a trimming BELANDRE Dunkirk, informed Bishop that the master, a foam master's son and a sailor who composed the crew, s'étoient saved on the boat that Sea that were horrible, engulfing soon after. The sailor was lost without resource; the teacher who swam superiorly grabbed his son and held him with one arm for 15 to 18 minutes, but could not prevent him from drowning. After three quarters of an hour the father managed to gain ground on the side of Senneville where he would have infallibly perished without the assistance of a few men and women who lavished all the help he needed. This man, named Bouffey emptied completely and gave him his shirt and his clothes.

Ugly, ugly. It is of course to get the ministry, for the master in question, "a small gratuity," and "reward of charity named Bouffey" - which is granted . The spirits recognize grief in a narrative topos the story of shipwreck, found in périqodiquement stories of this type until now, the unfortunate foam torn from the arms of his father by the raging waters. This does not mean it's false, but identify a topos like this can only encourage the historian to be cautious. Who will challenge the story of a grieving father? The appointed

Bouffey, meanwhile, is proof that the people of coastline, far from the wreckers as is a myth thoroughly studied by Alain Cabantous ( barbarous coasts, wreckers and coastal societies in France, 1680-1830, Fayard, 1993), know the lifesaving: give the wrecked dry clothes is actually the first thing to do, all works that address will tell you. It is there in good company, with the monks of Saint-Mathieu Avont we talked and peasants of Picardy Molière, in the previous century, who instead prefer to give their clothes get wrecked warm, naked, before a good Fire - other method recommended by all the manuals, too.

Dom Juan or The Feast of Stone , ACT II, Scene first

CHARLOTTE, PIERROT.

CHARLOTTE: Our dinse, Pierrot, you found yourself good point there.

PIERROT: Parquienne he did not do the required thickness of a éplinque Sayant Nayes they do both.

CHARLOTTE: So the gale da morning had renvarsés in March?

PIERROT: Aga, Guienne, Charlotte, I'm gonna tell it all end drait as it came, for, as they say, I have the first notice, notify the first I have them. So finally j'estions on the edge of March, me and the big Lucas, and I amused ourselves to frolic with clods of Tarra I jesquions us to test for, as you know bian, the big Lucas likes to frolic and by me I fouas frolics ditto. In frolicking thus pisque frolic there, I saw any thing away queuque gliau swarmed in, and who came as envar us by shock. I saw this fixiblement, and worse all of a sudden I saw that I could not see anything. "Hey Lucas, ç'ai I done, I think vla men who swim there. [...]" Well, Lucas, ç'ai I said, you know that we bian appelont: Vista leu will help. - No, it's me he said, they made me pardre. "Oh! So, at the end will tanquia, for short, as I sarmonné, I we have toppled in a boat, and so much worse j'avons willy nilly, that I have learned gliau, and I've done worse Cheux us by the fire, and worse they all stripped naked sant to dry, and worse there came two more OF THE SAME band, which s'equiant saved himself, and is worse Mathurine arrival there, who has made the soft eyes. Vla precisely, Charlotte, as it all happened.

[...]

CHARLOTTE: Is it still free cloth you naked, Pierrot?

PIERROT: Nannain: Avont they dressed all before us.

Neither Pierrot, nor appointed Bouffey, the medal will rescue, and for good reason. At Bouffey, we give some books; Pierrot, a scraped (Act II, Scene III):

PIERROT: Er. (Don Juan gives him a slap.) Testigué! do not hit me. (Another slap.) Oh! jernigué! (Another slap.) Ventrequé! (Another slap.) Palsanqué! Morquenne! bian that is not to beat people, and that is not the reward of v's have saved Estre Naye.

That's true!

(Illustration: The document archives, national archives, funds navy veterans, B 1 99, folio 235, and the king leaves Minister, 1784 . Excerpt from Dom Juan by Molière , according www.site-moliere.com .)