1736, France
She is part of the local Mauritian history and was made famous in the novel of “Paul et Virginie”.
The Saint Géran was a vessel from the French East India Company launched in Lorient in 1736.
She first sailed to Pondicherry under the command of Captain L. Laurent Aubin Dupleyssis, then ...
1736, France
She is part of the local Mauritian history and was made famous in the novel of “Paul et Virginie”.
The Saint Géran was a vessel from the French East India Company launched in Lorient in 1736.
She first sailed to Pondicherry under the command of Captain L. Laurent Aubin Dupleyssis, then underook several journeys to the West-Indies under various commands.
In 1744, while carrying food supplies to Mauritius who was then suffering from a terrible drought she
was shipwrecked off the coast of Mauritius while under the command of Captain Richard de Lamarre. Only 9 men out of a crew of 149 survived.
This event is an important part of the local history and inspired Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre (French civil engineer, novelist & botanist) to write the famous novel “Paul et Virginie” in which the heroine’s fate ends in drowning during the sinking of the ship off the coast of Mauritius while returning home to the island.
The Saint Géran remains are a diving site and her bell can be seen in the local museum of Mahébourg.
