Europe 1 Studio SEASON 2021 - 202206:00 a.m., April 14, 2022

On July 2, 1816, La Méduse, the boat made famous by Géricault's masterpiece, ran aground.

Commander Chaumareys is one of the first to board a rowboat, while a group of sailors organize themselves to survive on a makeshift raft... In this new episode of the Europe 1 Studio podcast "At the heart of the History", Clémentine Portier-Kaltenbach concludes her story on the scandal of the sinking of La Méduse.

While Commander Chaumareys managed to save his skin, on the raft of La Méduse, the situation deteriorated rapidly.

Suicide, hunger, cannibalism... The sailors struggle to survive, driven by the common goal of revenge on their commander.

In this new episode of the Europe 1 Studio podcast "At the heart of history", Clémentine Portier-Kaltenbach completes her story of this dramatic event.

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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

Bibliography 

Famous Castaways, 

 Zurcher, Margollé, Hachette, 1877

The Curse of Medusa

, Eric Emptaz, Grasset

The Medusa, chronicle of an ordinary shipwreck

, Jean-Yves Bloch, Artaud, 1980   

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A Limousin sailor, Hugues Duroy de Chaumareys, commander of the Medusa, revealed by the unpublished family archives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