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Story of Jean-Louis Favre, son's of the famous letter of mark Jean Louis Favre from Le Havre. It's sailor life during Napoleonic Empire and during the French Restauration to the wrecking of Le Casimir brig in 1829.

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After subacuatic excavations of Le Casimir wreck in Dominicain Republic, I have reconstituted the life of his captain and discovered he was the son of the famous french letter of Mark Jean Louis Favre. His son, how have the same first name, was totaly unknowed before this research.

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This page is a summary of: Les rocambolesques aventures maritimes de Jean Louis Favre (1786 - ?), enseigne de vaisseau havrais puis capitaine au long cours « naufrageur », Annales de Normandie, January 2011, CAIRN,
DOI: 10.3917/annor.611.0131.
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