Directed by James Cameron and starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet, "Titanic" is still popular with many fans. However, for this shipwreck, there are still many events to be disclosed. Recently, researchers confirmed that a letter in a bottle found in New Brunswick was from a 12-year-old female passenger of the Titanic that year.
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In April 1912, 12-year-old Mathilde Lefebvre boarded the Titanic with his mother and other siblings, reunited with his relatives in the United States after a year of separation. Unfortunately, the reunion did not come, because they were boarding the Titanic and sank shortly after.
However, in 2017, a family found a letter in a bottle in the Bay of Fundy between New Brunswick and Novus Gaussau, and they found that the letter paper was very old, so they studied it for the university, and the results were surprising. It is understood that the Université du Québec à Rimouski of the University of Quebec in Canada has been studying whether the bottle letter comes from more than a century ago, and finally has an answer recently.
Nicolas Beaudry, a professor of history and archaeology at the University of Quebec in Canada, said the letter did come from more than a century ago. ( L'Université du Québec à Rimouski Photo)
According to Nicolas Beaudry, a professor of history and archaeology at the University of Quebec in Canada, "So far, we have not found any traces of forged documents. He was even more certain that there had been a passenger on the Titanic whose name was Mathilde Lefebvre. The professor continued: "She is the daughter of a miner named Franck Lefebvre in northern France, and her father went to the United States to try his luck. ”
Frank Lefebvre worked in a mine in Iowa, four older children lived in the United States with their fathers, while the mother and the youngest four children lived in France, including Mathilde Lefebvre. As for the letter, it came from herself, in which she wrote: "I have left this bottle of letter in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean, and we will arrive in New York in a few days." If anyone finds the letter, contact the Lefebvre family of Liévin. ”
It is believed that the letter was written by 12-year-old Mathilde Lefebvre. ( L'Université du Québec à Rimouski Photo)
While Nicolas Beaudry noted that no evidence of forged documents could be found, he noted that at the time after the shipwreck, it was not excluded that someone might have forged the letter with old materials. "Pranks were very common at the time because the media would publish information from shipwrecks because they would attract the attention of readers," he said. ”
Some university professors questioned whether The bottle would not pass through New Brunswick if it was left from the Atlantic. (Online image)
In addition, some university professors questioned that if the bottle was thrown from the Atlantic Ocean, the water would not flow through New Brunswick: "This is unlikely, but it is not impossible." He continued: "The Gulf of Mexico flows from eastern North America to Europe, so it is most likely to be on the coast of Europe." As for acques Lefebvre, a descendant of J who lives in the south of France, he doubts the authenticity of the letter, but he also hopes it is true: "It is really unbelievable. This is our only letter, and my grandfather didn't write any of them. ”
(Editor: Zhang Yijia)