# france arctic sea antarctic sailing ships

Pourquoi-Pas by French maritime artist Marin Marie

Launched in 1907, she was used by Jean-Baptiste Charcot for his polar expeditions. When she was lost in a storm off Iceland in 1936, Charcot, then 69 was lost along with all bar one of the crew.

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2022-11-21

Here's a great snap from Pourquoi-Pas? expedition--these Adélies having some strong words!

Charcot, J. B. Le Pourquoi-Pas dans l'Antarctique... Paris, 1910.
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2022-07-19

Rozaliya Olenyeva from Honkai Impact is disabled!
She has Hypermobile Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome, Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome, and Charcot-Marie-Tooth type 1a [canon unspecified disability, everything else is headcanon]

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2022-05-14

Jane spent two years at Salpêtrière hospital under Dr. Jean-Martin Charcot, a neuropsychiatrist. Fashionable members of society who, fascinated by deviation from the norm, disfigurement & disease, were able to observe surgery and take part in fancy dress balls with the patients.

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2020-08-06

French Barque “Pourquoi-Pas” by French painter Marin-Marie. Built in 1908 for polar explorer Jean-Baptiste Charcot, she was wrecked in 1936 with the loss of all hands bar one.

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2019-01-31