Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 285, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 December 1911 — French Sailors. [ARTICLE]

French Sailors.

Most of' the French admirals are from the south, from which wp may infer the greater success of'their southern friends as politicians and perhaps- their own skill in hanging thelrFhammocks at the admlralty, says a Paris letter to London Truth. The bulk of the seamen, ate Normans and Bretons, but the latter afP'mudh more numerohi: The Noririahs fihve inf modern times grown lubberl&v-Under the Plantagenets they wetfi" less- rich, soaked infinitely less cider brandy, had no factories and we constantly spurred to .naval actlon by hostile Bretons. This kept up that spirit of hardy seamanship which landed -the Dteppols In the time of the early. Valolp to the Kongo and them to trade ta coeoapute and thpse elephant tusks which their trausformed into suteh beautifully carved objects d'art. The seamanship of foe Provencals was brought out by the piracies of Algerines, Tunisians and Moors. Bai 111 Suffren, who “skimmed’’ the oceans fa the eighteenth century of East Indiamen and British merchantmen, wa» a PfpvencaL Whenever England and France quarreled in the Valois dr~Boiirbon periods the Normans went with a rush into piracy and found to, its heaps of money.