Forget Me Not

One Mystery solved

Written by Dominique VANDANJON-HERAULT on 23 March 2022. Posted in News.

The Mystery of the "Guinea Fabric" From India to "India", via European spinning mills... fabrics that sometimes travelled around the world before being worn Noir Tailleur de Pierre Réunion vers 1850 "Noir Tailleur de Pierre" Watercolour by Jean Baptiste Dumas, circa 1850. Source : IHOI Since the beginning of this adventure, we have been wondering where this famous blue cloth, known as "Guinea cloth", which was used...

A citizen of 1848

Written by Dominique VANDANJON-HERAULT on 21 March 2022. Posted in News.

Analyzing : watercolour "a citizen" from 1848/65 Context: 1848 is the date of the abolition of slavery in the French colonies. On Reunion Island, the abolition decree, voted in April in Paris, only came into force on 20 December 1848. The commissioner sent by the government of the Second Republic, Sarda Garriga, obtained from the slave workers that they wait until the end of the sugar cane harvest period! In this watercolour by Hippolyte Charles...

mortier de trévise, aquarelle, watercolor, dessin, citoyen, republique, cafre, personnage, chapeau, vacoa, bertel, affranchi

Objet Témoin Partners With Capeline-Afac974 On Scientific Issues

Written by Forget Me Not on 14 March 2022. Posted in News.

It is with a certain pride that we announce the official start of our collaboration with the association AFAC974 on the island of Reunion, the bearer of the CAPELINE project, which has won awards for its commitment to young people and teachers in Reunion. Thanks to this partnership, we will be able to call on the scientific expertise of Dominique Vandanjon, Professor of History and Geography at the University of Reunion, as well as Raymond...

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Visit to the Royal Museum of the Army and Military History

Written by Alicia PIOT BOUYSSE on 17 March 2022. Posted in News.

Visit to the Royal Museum of the Army and Military History in Brussels As part of our research, we visit different institutions to gather as much information as possible that we would like to share on this blog, with an audience that would like to know more but also be motivated to share. The visit I am going to describe here was not as fruitful as I would have liked but it confirmed a point that is gradually becoming more important in our...

WHI, Bruxelles, Musée, Recherche

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How this project was born

Written by Dominique VANDANJON-HERAULT on 13 March 2022. Posted in News.

The Genesis of "Forget me not" Project The very recent research that we are carrying out, with the association Objet Témoin, under the banner of the project Forget Me Not (declined as "oubli pas moin" in Reunionese Creole) is linked to a work carried out by a team of historians and volunteers on a former sugar factory in the south of Reunion Island. -21.3559,55.6458 AFAC974 Réunion Island (Fr) 50.8458,4.3616 Objet...

mortier de trévise, Le Coat de Kerveguen, research, factories, sugarcane, origins

One Mystery solved

A citizen of 1848

Objet Témoin Partners With Capeline-Afac974 On Scientific Issues

Visit to the Royal Museum of the Army and Military History

How this project was born

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