The wreck of the slave ship Saint-Géran off the coast of Mauritius, 1744. Fictionalized in Jacques-Henri Bernardin's novel Paul and Virginia, 1788. Naufrage de Virginie. Elle parut un ange qui prend son vol vers les cieux. After an illustration by Pierre-Paul Prud'hon from the 1806 edition. Illustration from Paul Lacroix's Directoire, Consulat et Empire, (Directory, Consulate and Empire), Paris, 1884.

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