[BAROQUE-LUTE] Re: Le Fameux Corsair

2009-01-12 Thread Anthony Hind
Oups the dates don't work. I should have checked. I did not think a corsair could have been post Weiss. In that case, it must be the following: René Duguay-Trouin René Duguay-Trouin was born in Saint-Malo in 1673, and the son of a rich ship owner took a fleet of 64 ships and was honoured in

[BAROQUE-LUTE] Re: Le Fameux Corsair

2009-01-12 Thread Anthony Hind
I forgot to say surely it must be Duguay-Trouin. Anthony Le 12 janv. 09 à 17:26, Anthony Hind a écrit : Michel Cardin being both a French speaker and a specialist on Weiss, of course I bow to his greater knowledge, but wasn't Blackbeard a pirate, in modern French, Corsair is very much

[BAROQUE-LUTE] Re: Le Fameux Corsair

2009-01-12 Thread Anthony Hind
Oh well, I just thought of searching specifically for Fameux corsaire barbe Barbe Noire, and I found that things are less clear than I fist thought. In a text from figaro international, Barbe Noire is constantly called pirate, le plus redoutable pirate, but it seems that he started out