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Port of Dunkirk
“This January 2, 1928, finally arrives! The “Cap Padaran”, a medium tonnage mixed vessel, sails at six o’clock, in freezing temperatures…”
The narrator, in Le capitaine Steene, Théodore Poussin, volume 1
Theodore Poussin or the call of the adventure
Born in the newspaper Spirou n°2428 in 1984, Théodore Poussinis a series of adventures imagined by Frank Le Gall, a comic book author born in Rouen. In the footsteps of the great adventure novels of Robert Louis Stevenson, Joseph Conrad or Jack London, this epic takes place during the inter-war period, from 1927.
Son of a merchant marine captain, Théodore Poussin has been dreaming of travel since his father’s death. As a small office worker in a shipping company in Dunkirk, he decided to leave this northern French city for Asia.
From the port of Dunkirk to Haïphong
Théodore embarked on the Cap Padaran in Dunkirk, heading for Haïphong in Vietnam. The 26 year old goes in search of Captain Charles Steene, his uncle, whose family lost track of him eleven years earlier in this city of the Red River Delta.
Before docking in this French Indochina country, the liner stopped in Marseille. The young student-commissioner is invited by the captain’s second in command to visit the city: the Canebière, the Cours Belsunce and the rue Saint-Ferréol.
A world tour in comics
”Théodore allows me to travel without leaving Paris,” Frank Le Gall confides when he talks about his flagship series counting 13 volumes in 2018. Indeed, the author from Rouen does not need to leave his drawing board to travel the world. He can do this through the wanderings of his paper hero.
Throughout the albums, Théodore Poussin finds himself in Shanghai, Dakar, Buenos Aires or Borneo. He lives adventures surrounded by mysteries and plots.
The Théodore Poussin series was awarded two prizes at the Angoulême festival: the best French album in 1989 for volume 3 and the alph-art of the public in 1993 for volume 6.
Grand Port Maritime of Dunkirk
Construit à partir de 1700 dans le Nord de la France, le port de Dunkerque est le troisième port français et le 88e du monde.
While its fortifications were destroyed because they were not very effective against corsairs, Louis XIV ordered repairs to the docks and quays to get trade moving again in the port of Dunkirk.
In 1848, traffic increased thanks to the arrival of the railroad, which connected the sea to the territories.
A trading dock and four docks were built at the end of the 19th century. At the beginning of the following century, the port of Dunkirk quickly became the third largest in the country.
Today, the 88th largest port in the world, it is specialized in the transport of iron ore, coal and oil.
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