Napoleania?

Imaginez* if instead of learning French, we trying to get our heads around l’anglais* instead!

This is not as far-fetched as it may seem. Those of you who have done a trip with us to Akaroa in New Zealand to attend the. bi-annual French Fest know that the French explorers were only days away from claiming the Banks Peninsula as a colony before les Anglais* swooped in and planted the Union Jack.

According to this article from The Guardian, a very similar story could have been played our here in Australia during the height of the Napoleonic Wars.

Très intéressant*…

Nicolas-Martin Petit and Charles Lesueur were crew members of Le Geographe. They were among the first Europeans to portray the land, people, animals and plants of South Australia. Lesueur’s ‘Le Wombat’ was sketched on King Island, Tasmania. Photograph: State Library SA

*Imagine | *English | *The English | *Very interesting