Jean-Baptiste CHARCOT - Set of two signed autograph cards.

Jean-Baptiste CHARCOT (1867.1936)

Set of two autograph cards signed to Philippe and Hélène Berthelot.

Four oblong pages in-12° on letterhead from his ship the Leur-Pas .

Cherbourg, July 10, 1926 and St. Servan-sur-Mer, November 23, 1934.

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I. Cherbourg aboard the Quelle-Pas . July 10, 1926. To Philippe Berthelot.

“ Thank you, my dear friend, for the good news you have given me about Mikkelsen [explorer Ejnar Mikkelsen]. I'm leaving on the 15th to take him to the Faroe Islands and take him on a short tour to the east coast of Greenland. I will inform him of this distinction of which he will be very honored and I will organize a small demonstration in Thorsovn [sic, for Tórshavn, the capital of the Faroe Islands] in agreement with the governor in the “Why not? ". Please pay my respects to Madame Berthelot and again with my thanks believe in my best feelings. Charcot »

II. St. Servan-sur-Mer, November 23, 1934. His condolences to Hélène Berthelot following the death of her husband Philippe.  

“Madam, It is with deep sorrow that I learn of the cruel grief that has struck you . This loss is irreparable for you, for France and for the friends of your dear husband ; allow me to share your great pain and to tell you simply but very sincerely that my wife and I pity you with all our hearts. Please accept, Madam, the assurance of my very respectful and very moved sympathy. Charcot »

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The first Frenchman to enter the eastern coast of Greenland, Charcot was passionate about this country. Elected to the Academy of Sciences in 1926, it entrusted him with a mission to Jameson Land. Thanks to the presence on board the Why-Pas? by the great Danish explorer Mikkelsen, embarked in the Faroe Islands, Charcot passed through Jan Mayen then explored the eastern coast of Greenland and notably brought back an abundant harvest of fossils and numerous samples of insects and flora.

During the summer of 1934, Charcot established the ethnographic mission in Greenland led by Paul-Émile Victor, who stayed for a year in Angmagssalik to live among an Eskimo population. In September of that same year, he co-founded, with the National Museum of Natural History, the Aquarium and Museum of the Sea in Dinard.