Europe 1 Studio SEASON 2021 - 202207:00 a.m., March 24, 2022
Under the reign of Louis XV, then Louis XVI, sailors Yves-Joseph de Kerguelen-Trémarec and Jean Aleno de Saint-Aloüarn braved the screaming 50th and roaring 40th in search of the fifth continent.
If James Cook has eclipsed their names, is he really the first to have discovered Australia?
In this new episode of the Europe 1 Studio podcast "At the heart of History", Clémentine Portier-Kaltenbach restores the truth about the discovery of the Southern continent.
Kerguelen, Crozet, Marion Dufresne, Surville… Each of these Breton sailors gave their name to an island, an archipelago or a ship.
But what about Saint-Aloüarn?
In this new episode of the Europe 1 Studio podcast "At the heart of history", Clémentine Portier-Kaltenbach explains why this unknown sailor deserves posterity...
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Writing and presentation: Clémentine Portier-Kaltenbach
Producer: Timothée Magot
Directed by: Oscar Vataire
Broadcaster: Eloise Bertil
Graphics: Sidonie Mangin
Bibliography:
Kerguelen, the phoenix of the southern seas
, Alain Boulaire, France Empire, 1996
Extraordinary and Unknown Stories from the Southern Seas
, Gracie Delépine, Collection Ouest France, 2002
Relation of two voyages in the Southern Seas & the Indies
, 1771, 1772, 1773 & 1774, preface by Alain Boulaire, Le Serpent de mer, 2001
Great Z'heroes of the History of France
, Clémentine Portier Kaltenbach, JC Lattès, 2010