In The Hunchback of Notre-Dame, there was a young girl named Esmeralda. She danced in the square before Notre-Dame Cathedral and was seen by the bishop. The man who had once been happy was driven into misery by it. A love like blazing fire tormented his heart, and he even threatened Esmeralda that if she refused to submit, he would truly send her to the stake.
Esmeralda was actually a Spanish name meaning emerald, but no Spanish family would really give a child that name.
Bougainville became a dragoon during the Seven Years' War. Through Madame de Pompadour's recommendation, although his military career ended after the war, he began a naval career instead. Yet the naval officers held this rapidly promoted naval colonel in little regard. In their eyes, he was nothing.
But Bougainville immediately took action. He had always been a man of action. He had once tried to colonize an archipelago near the Strait of Magellan called the Falkland Islands, only to receive a warning from Spain, because those islands belonged to South America.
Although the Falkland Islands lay far from the coastline, they were indeed on South America's continental shelf. Bougainville had no choice but to abandon his original colonization plan and return to Nantes.
In 1766, the young captain met an elderly sailor in Nantes. Because he was not a nobleman, he had only become a first mate in his old age. They left Monten Anchorage at the mouth of the Loire River and sailed toward Laplace, where he encountered the Spanish three-masted cruisers Esmeralda and Liebre.
Believing himself outnumbered, Bougainville immediately retreated. But once Bougainville's warship reached the open sea, it encountered a terrible storm. The three-masted cruiser, fitted with brand-new rigging, suffered severe damage and had to return to Brest for repairs.
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