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Posted by Clancy
on 19/1/2008, 11:30 am
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January 19, 2008 Extract from smh.com.au
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Mauritius is beautiful and culturally diverse, writes David Scott.
It was a dark and stormy night. Really. Off the north coast of Mauritius in 1744 when the St Geran slipped beneath the waves.
An author of fiction, Bernardin de St-Pierre, took the last moments of the ship as the setting for a tragic love story in which a fair maiden, Virginie, is travelling on the St Geran when it founders and her lover Paul swims to the wreck to save her. Virginie is too modest to take off her clothes and swim to safety. She drowns, and Paul dies soon after of a broken heart.
Up to 200 people died in the real St Geran wreck, among them women weighed down by their clothing.
Modern Mauritius has embraced the St Geran tale and its model shipbuilding industry places scale replicas proudly alongside the HMS Bounty, the Endeavour and the Astrolabe.
Read the rest at
http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2008/01/16/1200419875322.html
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