Artnet

French Love Letters, Sealed for 265 Years, Are Opened—and Read—for the First Time

For centuries, a box of letters sat unopened in the National Archives in the U.K., until one curious historian recently unsealed and read them for the first time. What he found was a panoply of human ...
Phys.org

French love letters confiscated by Britain finally read after 265 years

Over 100 letters sent to French sailors by their fiancées, wives, parents and siblings—but never delivered—have been opened and studied for the first time since they were written in 1757–8. The ...
WRAL

Rare ‘treasure box’ of French letters opened and read after 265 years

(CNN) — For 265 years, more than 100 letters written by family members to the men serving aboard the French warship Galatée languished in piles, still sealed with red wax because they never reached ...
Smithsonian Magazine

Sealed French Love Letters Read for the First Time in 265 Years

The letters remained unopened in storage for more than two centuries before Renaud Morieux read them. The National Archives / Renaud Morieux “I could spend the night writing to you … I am your forever ...