Love letters, both familial and romantic, were opened for the first time in 265 years at the request of a Cambridge University professor. They were written during the Seven Years' War.
Imagine writing a letter to someone when it was one of the few forms of communication while you were apart – and that letter never made it to whom you intended. That is what happened to more than 100 letters mailed to French sailors from their loved ones, written between 1757 and 1758, seized by Britain's Royal Navy during the Seven Years' War, according to the University of Cambridge.
It was very emotional,' Morieux said. 'Today we have Zoom and WhatsApp. In the 18th century, people only had letters but what they wrote about feels very familiar.' The Seven Years' War lasted from 1756 to 1763. At the time, France commanded some of the world's finest ships yet lacked experienced sailors. Britain used that knowledge to imprison as many French sailors as it could during the war.
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