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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.

In our recent episode on Augustin Frenno, we mentioned that a tragic shipwreck led France and eventually the world to want to improve lighthouse technology.

And I knew immediately, as I was working on that episode, that I wanted to talk about this shipwreck, because it was the demise of the French frigate La Medus, or in English, Medusa.

This was actually covered in an episode by prior host Sarah and De Blina in 2011 in their

episode Five Shipwreck Stories. We actually ran that as a Saturday classic on July 20th,

2022, but there is so much about the Medusa that We actually ran that as a Saturday classic on July 20th, 2022.

But there is so much about the Medusa that just cannot make it into a five-minute segment.

So much.

And this story is also very closely intertwined with art, which they do also touch on.

Although I think they maybe did not

look into the creation of that art, because they're like, to end it on a happy note, and they

talk about the art, but like, as you'll discover in part two, creating it was its own wild story.

The Raft of Medusa by Teodor Jericho is a depiction of a life raft from this wreck

adrift at sea right before it's rescued.

And Jericho's obsession with the story of the Medusa

and with creating a record of what happened on the raft

is a story in and of itself.

So this is a two-parter.

And in this first episode, we're going to talk

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