Move over Bridgerton.
Dozens of letters were confiscated by the Navy Letters confiscated by Britain’s Royal Navy before they reached French sailors during the Seven Years’ War have been opened for the first time – and some are quite saucy. The notes, written in 1757-8, were intended for the crew of French warship the Galatee and sent by wives, fiances, parents and siblings. While the French postal service took them to multiple ports in France to attempt delivery, they always arrived too late.
Marguerite’s letter to her son Nicolas captures some classic mother-son guilt tripping In another letter, Anne Le Cerf Nanette told her husband Jean Topsent, a non-commissioned officer: ‘I cannot wait to possess you.’ On a very different subject, young Normandy sailor Nicolas Quesnel received a letter from his 61-year-old mother, Marguerite, who was almost certainly illiterate, via an unknown scribe. ‘On the first day of the year you have written to your fiancée.
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