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[...]grant us their approbation. If we hear it said, that our frankness may have been useful to our country, this success will be, at once, our justification and our recompence. We have questioned, concerning the nautical details, several gentlemen of the navy who were on board; we confess, however, that on comparing their accounts, we have observed that they did not always entirely agree; but we have taken those facts which had the most witnesses in their favour. We shall be sometimes obliged to record cruel truths; they will, however, be directed only to those, whose unskilfulness, or pusillanimity have caused these dreadful events. We venture to affirm, that the numerous observations, which we have collected, will give to our[...].
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Folio: Le naufrage de la Méduse, Alexandre Corréard, Jean Baptiste Henri Savigny
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- 2005
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- Title
- Folio: Le naufrage de la Méduse
- Subtitle
- Relation du naufrage de la frégate la Méduse - French Edition
- Language
- French
- Publisher
- Folio
- Released
- 2005
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 352
- ISBN10
- 2070309878
- ISBN13
- 9782070309870
- Series
- Original title
- Naufrage de la frégate la Méduse, faisant partie de l'expédition du Sénégal en 1816
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- 3.6 out of 5
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- [...]grant us their approbation. If we hear it said, that our frankness may have been useful to our country, this success will be, at once, our justification and our recompence. We have questioned, concerning the nautical details, several gentlemen of the navy who were on board; we confess, however, that on comparing their accounts, we have observed that they did not always entirely agree; but we have taken those facts which had the most witnesses in their favour. We shall be sometimes obliged to record cruel truths; they will, however, be directed only to those, whose unskilfulness, or pusillanimity have caused these dreadful events. We venture to affirm, that the numerous observations, which we have collected, will give to our[...].