The intimate letters meant for French sailors have finally been opened, more than 200 years after they were sent. Historian Renaud Morieux uncovered the letters after going through a box at ...

“These letters shatter the old-fashioned notion that war is all about ... research for his book “The Society of Prisoners: Anglo-French War and Incarceration in the Eighteenth Century.” ...

Scores of French love letters from the mid-18th century have been opened and studied for the first time since they were written. The letters – sent to French sailors by wives, siblings and ...

In the French National Library ... (de-crypt.org), but their ambitions extend beyond just deciphering old, coded letters and ...