A history professor at the University of Cambridge, Renaud Morieux, stumbled upon a collection of over 100 unopened letters in Britain s National Archives, dating back to mid-18th-century France.
More than 100 letters, addressed to French sailors, were never delivered. They remained unopened for nearly 250 years, until a historian found them in Britain’s archives.
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In 1758, Marie Dubosc penned a letter to her husband, Louis Chambrelan, first lieutenant on the French warship Galatee. "I could spend the night writing to you," she.