EXPÉDITION DU DUC D'ORLÉANS AU SPITZBERG

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EXPÉDITION DU DUC D'ORLÉANS AU SPITZBERG
A collection of correspondence from Count Louis de Kermaingant (1879-1966) to his brother, Count Jean (1888-1981) and his mother, Countess Marguerite (1853-1923), consisting of 9 L.A.S., 5 C.P.S. and 5 telegrams, dating from 1904, concerning his trip to Spitzberg in the company of the Duke of Orleans aboard the Prince's yacht, La Maroussia. Enclosed are three postcards signed by the Duke of Orléans, illustrated on the reverse with a view of La Maroussia, dated 1909; a correspondence card, a letter on the letterhead of the yacht La Maroussia and a set of 18 old photographs depicting the Duke with Count Louis and Countess Yvonne de Kermaingant on board La Maroussia during the expedition to Spitzberg organized by the Duke of Orléans. Text: - 3 August 1904: "We are on our way back, we will be in Ostend tomorrow evening. The Prince wishes to keep me there for the 5 or 6 days he will stay there; and as the boat is coming to Le Havre to disarm it, I will disembark there with Dr. Récamier. You will see me at the end of next week. We did not see the Emperor of Germany who delayed his arrival, but on the other hand our crossing is exquisite, on a sea and a radiant sun (...)". - Tromeö, August 18, 1904: "We arrive here, delighted with our expedition to Spitsbergen, which I will summarize here. We left Hammerfest on Saturday 2; on the evening of 4 to 6 o'clock, we arrived in sight of land; but the fog arriving suddenly forced us to anchor offshore, since there is no (exact) map allowing us to navigate according to the usual scientific procedures. The next day we landed at Sassen-Bay and were struck by the strange landscape, which is uniform throughout this polar country, but which has a new majesty. Enormous glaciers, interspersed with mountains covered with snow at ½; all this immense and steep; then gently sloping valleys, which remind us of the ice ages (o geology); as vegetation, nothing or almost nothing, small mosses, lichens, horsetails, tiny ferns; as te
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