@cambridgeuniversity: 'I cannot wait to possess you.' Over 100 letters sent to French sailors by their loved-ones have finally been read… 265 years after they were written! 📝 The letters were seized by Britain’s Royal Navy during the Seven Years’ War and forgotten about until Cambridge historian Professor Renaud Morieux opened them at the @uknatarchives Renaud Morieux is Professor of European History from the Faculty of History and a Fellow of Pembroke College #France #Letters #Sailors #Navy #History #Research #CambridgeUniversity #Cambridge #UniversityOfCambridge

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