Beachcomber Magazine 03

TROMELIN THE ART OF MEMORY 72 des Tuileries in Paris (1.3km by 300m), swept with each passing typhoon by winds of up to 240km/h. Between 2006 and 2013, he led four archaeo- logical excavations to try to find signs of life and to understand how the 88 enslaved Robinson Crusoes were able to survive by eating turtle eggs and roasted gannets. Passionate about history, the officer rescued their memories from oblivion, saying: “ this is the story of a speck of coral lost among the waves: a minuscule seed of memory, like an elementary particle of historical matter. ” THE FRESCO BY SYLVAIN SAVOIA Max Guérout is a naval commander with a strong sense of team spirit: due to a lack of space, only ten specialists accompany him on each mission. The most unlikely among these sand and coral mariners is Sylvain Savoia, who offers us a “film” of this drama we can browse through at will and which is bound to seduce film producers. Passionate about L’Utile , the slave ship, crashed onto the coral reefs around the tiny atoll, lost in the middle of the Indian Ocean. Le navire négrier L'Utile fait naufrage sur les récifs coralliens du minuscule atoll, perdu dans l'océan Indien. human stories, he tells this tale of criminal injustice, giving the floor to the archaeologists, of course, to LouisXV’s sailors and, above all, to the slaves themselves. The illus- trations are sensitively captioned. The “ seed of memory ” planted by Max Guérout became a beautiful tree of remembrance. To ensure that they are never forgotten  