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The "French " built in 1903 (graph JPO / DR). Diary
Charcot:
his first expedition
Antarctica ...
In 1903, Jean-Baptiste Charcot (1) who defines himself as a son to dad (2), built a polar exploration ship. But the family fortune could not cope with the costs of a research cruise in the ice, the daily Le Matin launched a subscription support. It met a real national enthusiasm. The funds flowed and Charcot could weigh anchor. Not without having renamed his boat named "French " (3) to show her gratitude.
January 27, 1904, Charcot is heading towards the South Shetland, leaving for winter at the South Pole.
1 May 1904:
- "my cultures of microbes from seawater and intestine of different animals of Antarctica, grow very well and I will try, by frequent subcultures, report them live in France, so did I housed in my cabin to better treat them. "(4)
May 2:
-" Nothing is more enjoyable to me than to hear men laughing, having fun frankly, a joke is another, without malice, never coarse, nullmement embarrassed by my presence, and yet always remaining very respectful. "
Jean-Baptiste Charcot (DR). May 7:
- "During our tour, we heard in our feet and then repeated shocks with a big bubbling a round hole formed and a seal showed blowing his big fat head, he looked at us with amazement, but without fear, rising as much as he could over ice and then after breathing heavily, he sank again. "
May 14:
-" For three days last ice forms around our boat and it is already beginning to be solid. I maintain a fire pit along the edge in case of fire and two others below foals (5). At the front, Starting from these, the freezing of urine formed a wonderful stalactite that resembles a block of onyx hues with yellow veins and producing an extremely pretty. "
May 15:
- "} {Cormorants are kind of stupid, not shy with us, and united in excellent households living in pairs they spend their time kissing, to make pleasantries with taking poses extremely graceful. Very frequently they are held by the end of the spout and describing nice curves with their neck, slowly swinging their head from right to left.
They look aristocrat who swears with the air of middle-class neighbors and friends the penguins. "
May 22:
-" With - 7 and calm We really suffered from the heat and I'm out shopping for quite long pants and shirt without me cover or ears, or hands. The low humidity became abominable ice due to condensation (...) began to melt and we were well rewarded with a heavy rain. "
Signature Charcot (graph JPO / DR). May 24:
- "Here I am good! I now have edema of the eyelid! Finger death, ringing in ears, polyuria, nocturnal cramps, tightness! What will happen to me? Will I die suddenly or gradually weaken me become impotent? Having been so vigorous and fall at a disadvantage, had fought so hard and be defeated before you do something! "
May 25:
- "We talked at length (...), we promised each other in case one or the other would become invalid, either accidentally or by any disease, making us the service to curtail the situation. I'm calmer now, come what may. "
May 29:
-" At sunset the snow has stopped falling, the fog has lifted and we attended one of these wonderful performances so common in Antarctica, but it never tires. The mountain peaks still hidden in the mist, were tinged with pink, and while in the northern sky was split in two, black as ink west, blue steel eastward in the southern pink and blue with an exquisite sweetness mingled without colliding, and ice and icebergs donned colorful reflections. "
In Omnibus: The novel Clusters (DR). NOTES:
(1) Jean-Baptiste Charcot, 1867-1936. Died in the sinking his boat, the night of 15 to 16 September 1936 on the Icelandic coast.
(2) Jean-Martin Charcot, 1825-1893, father of John the Baptist. Neurologist Freud who counted among his students, year academic 1885-1886.
(3) To notice the cover artwork at Omnibus. The original painting is signed Julian Taylor. The boat bears the, name "Why not?" while the newspaper Charcot was written on "French" ...
(4) Read: The novel Poles, Nansen, Amundsen, Charcot , Foreword by Jean-Louis Etienne, omnibus, 2008, 967 p.
(5) Cabinets sailors.
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