{"id":1396,"date":"2024-10-07T12:21:56","date_gmt":"2024-10-07T11:21:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/inneskeighren.com\/williammacintosh\/?p=1396"},"modified":"2024-10-10T16:35:51","modified_gmt":"2024-10-10T15:35:51","slug":"all-aboard-the-brisson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inneskeighren.com\/williammacintosh\/?p=1396","title":{"rendered":"All aboard the Brisson"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Readers of the blog might be interested in a <a href=\"https:\/\/larbredesbinoche.wordpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/bienvenue-chez-lamiral-final_compressed.pdf\">new biographical study<\/a> of Jean Paul Fonclar<br>de Grenier, a soldier in the Pondicherry regiment, who was a fellow passenger of Macintosh aboard the <em>Brisson<\/em> in 1778. The study&#8217;s author, Jean-Luc Brachet, was kind enough to get in touch with me during the preparation of the biography, and we were able to share some findings that enrich our respective accounts of life aboard the <em>Brisson<\/em>. It was Jean-Luc, for example, who spotted that the ship&#8217;s cook, about whose cuisine Macintosh frequently complains in <em>Travels<\/em>, was the unfortunately named Monsieur Rat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/inneskeighren.com\/williammacintosh\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Untitled.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"609\" height=\"865\" src=\"https:\/\/inneskeighren.com\/williammacintosh\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Untitled.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1397\" srcset=\"https:\/\/inneskeighren.com\/williammacintosh\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Untitled.png 609w, https:\/\/inneskeighren.com\/williammacintosh\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Untitled-211x300.png 211w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 609px) 100vw, 609px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">The cover of Jean-Luc Brachet&#8217;s study of Jean Paul Fonclar de Grenier, <em>Bienvenue chez l&#8217;Amiral<\/em> (2024).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Readers of the blog might be interested in a new biographical study of Jean Paul Fonclarde Grenier, a soldier in the Pondicherry regiment, who was a fellow passenger of Macintosh aboard the Brisson in 1778. The study&#8217;s author, Jean-Luc Brachet, was kind enough to get in touch with me during the preparation of the biography, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inneskeighren.com\/williammacintosh\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1396","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/inneskeighren.com\/williammacintosh\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/inneskeighren.com\/williammacintosh\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inneskeighren.com\/williammacintosh\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inneskeighren.com\/williammacintosh\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1396"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/inneskeighren.com\/williammacintosh\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1396\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1401,"href":"https:\/\/inneskeighren.com\/williammacintosh\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1396\/revisions\/1401"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inneskeighren.com\/williammacintosh\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inneskeighren.com\/williammacintosh\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inneskeighren.com\/williammacintosh\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}