The great shipwreck of the Indian armada on the coasts of Arcachon and Saint-Jean-de-Luz (1627).
Chandeigne| N° d'inventaire | 25688 |
| Format | 12 x 17.5 |
| Détails | 144 p., some illustrations, paperback. |
| Publication | Paris, 2020 |
| Etat | Nine |
| ISBN | 9782367322063 |
"Magellane" collection.
Translation by BOISVERT George, preface by DE CASTRO Xavier.
In January 1627, an exceptional storm in the Bay of Biscay caused the most terrible shipwreck in the history of the Portuguese navy. Seven ships sank, including two enormous carracks from the Indies laden with all the riches of the Orient, and five war galleons escorting them: nearly 2,000 dead and fewer than 300 survivors, hundreds of cannons lost, a fortune sunk...
Dom Francisco Manuel de Melo, then 19, was one of the survivors. Having become one of the great Portuguese writers of his century, he published in 1660 a superb, baroque, and strange account of this tragedy, saluting the whalers of Saint-Jean-Luz who saved a large part of his galleon's crew at the risk of their lives. But other sources, long ignored or forgotten, shed a darker light on this disaster, highlighting the inglorious roles of the wreckers of the Landes coast, the nobility of Aquitaine in general, and the Duke of Épernon in particular.
"Magellane" collection.
Translation by BOISVERT George, preface by DE CASTRO Xavier.
In January 1627, an exceptional storm in the Bay of Biscay caused the most terrible shipwreck in the history of the Portuguese navy. Seven ships sank, including two enormous carracks from the Indies laden with all the riches of the Orient, and five war galleons escorting them: nearly 2,000 dead and fewer than 300 survivors, hundreds of cannons lost, a fortune sunk...
Dom Francisco Manuel de Melo, then 19, was one of the survivors. Having become one of the great Portuguese writers of his century, he published in 1660 a superb, baroque, and strange account of this tragedy, saluting the whalers of Saint-Jean-Luz who saved a large part of his galleon's crew at the risk of their lives. But other sources, long ignored or forgotten, shed a darker light on this disaster, highlighting the inglorious roles of the wreckers of the Landes coast, the nobility of Aquitaine in general, and the Duke of Épernon in particular.