In the 18th century, people only had letters ... and the British went on to seize hundreds of French ships at sea. According to Morieux, despite its collection of excellent ships during this ...

More than 100 letters, addressed to French sailors, were never delivered ... intimate details about romance and daily life in mid-18th-century France. Unlike many other written documents from ...

Scores of French love letters from the mid-18th century have been opened and studied ... the letters were mostly addressed to the crew of the Galatée warship, and the French postal administration ...