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Étiquette : France

  • Histoire d’une vie: Vital Merlot et Georgina Botman, vivre dans les campagnes du Boulonnais au XXème siècle.

    Histoire d’une vie: Vital Merlot et Georgina Botman, vivre dans les campagnes du Boulonnais au XXème siècle.

    Le 29 avril 1899, le petit village de Bernieulles voit se tenir la célébration du mariage de deux jeunes gens: Louis Vital Adélard Merlot et Marie-Joséphine Georgina Botman. Enfants des campagnes du Boulonnais, ayant connu les transformations et les évènements tragiques du siècle dernier, ils ont cependant réussi à les traverser en laissant derrière eux…

  • Internal migrations within 18th century France:

    Internal migrations within 18th century France:

    Common sense thinks that our ancestors were tied to their land, without going away. Indeed, it’s true that an important part of the French population didn’t move far away. People grew up in a specific area, very different from the modern concept of France. The reality, I mean the environment where the French lived, was…

  • The Pas-de-Calais II’s sinking

    The Pas-de-Calais II’s sinking

    There are three sorts of people: those who are alive, those who are dead, and those who are at sea 1st August 1952, 5:40 am, coordinates: 50 degrees, 44’ 17’’ north and 1 degree 34’ 20’’ South. One of the buckets of the Pas-de-Calais II dredger raised a shell from the waters. It’s too late,…