It will be due to the tragic nature of his story, it will be due to the moving interpretation of Di Caprio-Winslet accompanied by the voice of Céline Dion, it will be because his wreck is slowly decomposing completely. The fact is that anything that has to do with the Titanic is an object of global interest and any news, real or fictitious, about the British ocean liner that sank in 1912 is debatable. It is therefore inevitable that the message in the bottle found in 2017 will continue to be on the lips of many aficionados.
«I throw this bottle into the sea, we have to arrive in New York in a few days. If anyone finds it, notify the Lefebvre family in Liévin ”. These are the few words written and signed by Mathilde Lefebvre on April 13, 1912, the day before the sinking of the Titanic. The sheet of paper sealed in a bottle was found 4 years ago by a Canadian family and since then it is still an unsolved mystery: true or false? Historical artifact or faithful posthumous reconstruction?
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A story that is thrilling France so much that with each update, with each new discovery, everyone talks about it. In fact, a first answer seems to have come from a recent study by the University of Quebec that focused on analyzing the bottle in which the message was contained and its manufacture. In fact, the processing is compatible with that of the early twentieth century, as well as the quality and chemical analysis of the glass, according to the archeology laboratory. A spectroscope has sifted through the ink: everything seems credibly dated to 1912, even if a skilled forger could have obtained glass, stopper, paper of the time and used a counterfeit ink.
A family of migrants
Hand in hand with the checks on the reliability of the find, there were also those relating to the Lefebvre family, migrants to America. A poor family, they probably traveled in third class. Franck, the father, was a miner in Lièven, and left for the USA in 1910 – two years before the Titanic – with one of his sons, Anselme, who was 10 years old. He found her in the coal mines of Mystic, Iowa, so much so that two years later he had raised the money to pay for the trip to his wife, Marie, and 4 other children. Who perished in the shipwreck and never reached it.
Learning of the sinking of the ocean liner and the existence of two surviving French children, their father, Franck, ran to New York to ask if they were his. But, having entered America under a false name, he was immediately repatriated to France.