A lost Franco-Irish world
A ship sailing from Bordeaux is seized by privateers in 1757. The letters it carries, destined for family, friends, and business partners in Dublin never arrive at their destination. 250 years later my colleague Tom Truxes finds them, still unopened, in the archives. A snapshot of everyday life during wartime on the eastern edge of the Atlantic World.
Winner, Prix Brives Cazes, Académie Nationale des Sciences Belles-Lettres et Arts de Bordeaux, 2014.