In 1880, a short road in central Le Havre was renamed after Corbière and later Brest, Morlaix (1905) and Roscoff (1911) did the same.
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Jean Antoine René Édouard Corbière (1 April 1793, Brest – 27 September 1875, Morlaix) was a French sailor, shipowner, journalist and writer, considered to be the father of the French maritime novel.
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The Corbière family originated in Valès, a hamlet in the Haut-Languedoc (now part of the commune iof Le Bez, to the east of Castres, in the Tarn département).
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At the time of Édouard's birth his father was an infantry captain in the French Navy - his mother, Jeanne-Renée Dubois, had been born at Morlaix in 1768.
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He launched a regatta in 1851, then unsuccessfully proposed starting a national subscription for France to send a yacht to the regatta around the Isle of Wight at which, on 22 August 1851, the schooner America won the trophy later renamed the America Cup.
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He was a prisoner on parole at Tiverton, Devon, until November 1811 when he was sent to Stapleton Prison near Bristol.
Édouard Manet | Édouard Vuillard | Édouard Daladier | Jules Edouard Roiné | Édouard-Louis Pacaud | Édouard-Louis-Antoine-Charles Juchereau Duchesnay | Édouard Lalo | Édouard Detaille | Édouard Stephan | Edouard Roditi | Édouard Michelin | Édouard Lucas | Édouard Lock | Édouard Lartet | Edouard Lanteri | Édouard Frère | Édouard Cortès | Édouard Carmignac | Édouard Balladur | Edouard A. Stackpole | Ange Edouard Poungui | Portrait of Louis de Bussy d'Amboise by Édouard Pingret | Pierre Édouard Blondin | ''Le Tennis'', huile sur toile d'Édouard Vuillard, 1907 | Jean-Baptiste Édouard Bornet | Isidore-Édouard-Candide Masson | George-Édouard Desbarats | Edouard Verreaux | Edouard Vermeulen | Édouard Roditi |