AT THE PEABODY, A SHIPSHAPE EXHIBIT FROM FRANCE

From: The Boston Globe | Date: July 23, 2002| Author: Louise Kennedy, Globe Staff | Copyright information

SALEM - Perhaps you are an expert on French naval history. Or perhaps - and is it fair to say that this is more likely? - your knowledge of the French navy begins and ends with the cute striped shirts of its sailors. Either way, the current exhibition at the Peabody Essex Museum holds some surprising rewards.

For the show, "Rendez-vous With the Sea," curators Daniel Finamore and Helene Tromparent chose 180 objects from the more than 50,000 in the collection of the Musee national de la ...

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