History

At the Maupertuis Expedition 290 Symposium in Torneå, the video Voyager 10 mn avec Jean-François Regnard received a small premiere. It tells the story of Jean-François Regnard. The video is part of a series produced by the French Centre for Travel Writing Studies (Le Centre de Recherches sur la Littérature des Voyages, CRLV). Each episode…

French scholar of travel literature, Professor Sylvie Requemora, has studied the wooden slabs preserved in the church of Jukkasjärvi, near Pajala, which travellers left behind as signs of their visit. These carved slabs are displayed on the wall of the church entrance hall. Sylvie Requemora spoke about the traces left by travellers in Jukkasjärvi at…