L'Océan, un défi commun
Musée de la Marine
Musée National de la Marine, Palais de Chaillot, 17, place du
Trocadéro, 01.53.65.69.69. Until 2 october.
This exhibition of the Museum of the Navy is initially whole homage
paid to Jean-baptiste Charcot, famous explorer of polar adventures,
disappeared body and heart with its crew in 1936. The exhibition is
extremely human as it recalls the fabulous destiny of this untiring
navigator (1867-1936), son of one of the most important neurologists of
this
time, at one time when the conquest of the poles signs the last great
forwarding to make move back the ultimate ignorance of planet. Three
symbolic objects point out the memory of Charcot to us: A
simply illustrated and stamped biscuit LU tin box of a photograph of
Charcot accompanied by its boat. This commercial imagery reveals us
later the popularity of the explorer, equal to that of the notorious
cosmonauts a few decades afterwards. In 1903, Charcot will be the first
to open
the bases of scientific research of the South Pole thanks to its boat,
la Français. Its notoriety becomes immediately international. A
photograph
of "Pourquoi Pas", its ship of 1934, evokes forwarding in Groenland in
company
of Paul-Emile Victor for an immersion in Inuits culture. A being
Ex-voto on
board "Pourquoi Pas", call upon Marguerite Cléry, Sainte Owner
of
the Icebergs the destiny of this boat symbolizes, leaves Reykjavik on
September 15, 1936, then, victim of a furious storm, is crushed on
the reefs the day even, letting survive one member of the crew.
