Europe 1 Studio SEASON 2021 - 202206:00 a.m., April 13, 2022
While Géricault's painting, The Raft of the Medusa, is very famous, the captain of the frigate La Méduse, Hugues Duroy de Chaumareys, has been consigned to the dustbin of history.
In this new episode of the Europe 1 Studio podcast "At the heart of history", Clémentine Portier-Kaltenbach looks back on the story of the sinking and its manager.
In 1816, Viscount Hugues Duroy de Chaumareys was entrusted with the management of La Méduse, the frigate in charge of retaking possession of Senegal.
In this new episode of the Europe 1 Studio podcast "At the heart of history", Clémentine Portier-Kaltenbach paints the portrait of Chaumareys, an obstinate commander who is far from mastering the art of navigation...
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"At the heart of history" is a Europe 1 Studio podcast
Writing and presentation: Clémentine Portier-Kaltenbach
Producer: Timothée Magot
Directed by: Oscar Vataire
Broadcaster: Eloise Bertil
Graphics: Sidonie Mangin
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Famous Castaways,
Zurcher, Margollé, Hachette, 1877
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The Medusa, chronicle of an ordinary shipwreck
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The case of the Medusa, the shipwreck and the trial,
Philippe Masson, coll.
Document of history, Tallandier, Paris, 2000.
A Limousin sailor, Hugues Duroy de Chaumareys, commander of the Medusa, revealed by the unpublished family archives
, Nicole Raynaud.
Bulletin of the Archaeological Society of Limousin, 2008