comte de Premio-Real

Élements biographiques

comte de Premio-Real Saint-Pierre & Miquelon

Les îles Saint-Pierre et Miquelon ont vu passer tous les navigateurs célèbres qui ont découvert ou exploré le Canada. C'est de leurs eaux que la France tire une partie importante de son alimentation. C'est vers leurs ports que l'Espagne envoie tous les ans des quantités énormes de sel pour conserver les dons précieux de la mer. C'est là que, dans la belle saison, des centaines de navires et de bateaux, et des milliers de pêcheurs français vont récolter pour leur patrie une moisson toujours abondante, et se former au rude métier de matelot.
Source : Gutenberg

comte de Premio-Real Saint-Pierre & Miquelon

How many persons in Europe and in America, even amongst those who lay claim to a certain amount of knowledge, are ignorant of the very names of those little islands, lost to sight on the coast of New-Foundland, that colossus of which they are the humble attendants.
How many Frenchmen are there to whom their name is unknown, and in whose minds they give rise but to vague and hardly realized ideas: like unto the distant murmur of ocean waves which barely reaches the ears of those who dwell away from the sea-shore.
Source : Gutenberg

comte de Premio-Real Saint-Pierre & Miquelon

When we consider all this, what matters it that during one-half of the year their shores are buried in snow or hidden in dense fogs; what matters it that they are beaten by the thundering waves of that terrible Northern Ocean whose green waters, laden with sea-weed and wreckage of every kind, dash upon them and seem, in their wild fury, to desire to wash them off the map of the world?
A livelihood is there provided, not only for the inhabitants, but also for thousands and thousands who live beyond the Atlantic.
Source : Gutenberg

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