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Welcome to Stuff You Missed in History Class, a production of IHeart Radio.

Hello and welcome to the podcast. I'm Holly Fry.

And I'm Tracy V. Wilson.

This is part two of a two-parter we have going on right now. In part one, we talked about the mission of the French frigate La Medus, which we have been calling by the Anglicized name Medusa, and several other vessels to reestablish the French as the rulers of the European colony in Senegal,

and how that journey turned harrowing due to poor leadership and desperate circumstances.

And today we're going to talk about the aftermath of the shipwreck and the artist who became obsessed with it.

This is going to reference details from the first part that we're not going to rehash in a lot of extra coverage.

So it's definitely a situation where if you have not heard that first one,

you should go back.

And also, like last time, unfortunately,

sorry, I guess we can call this an on-ramp to Halloween.

But there is some grisly stuff in this one as well.

Not just related to the shipwreck.

Perhaps in a way you might find surprising.

So one of the surgeons aboard the Medusa, Henri Saint-Munyi,

and a geographical engineer named

Alexander Corriard, were among the ten men who survived the 13 days of just terror aboard the raft

that had been constructed on the fly out of the Medusa's timbers to try to hold the people who would

not fit on the ship's lifeboats. They and other members of the Medusa's timbers to try to hold the people who would not fit on the ship's lifeboats.

They and other members of the ship's crew prepared reports regarding what had happened,

both leading up to and after the Medusa was run up on a reef and unable to be floated again.

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