In Morlaix, the Hippolyte Roman artist wants to restore their letters of nobility to the pirate women

“We have kept the memory of Henry Morgan, Olonnais, black beard but who remembers the pirates Mary Read, Anne Bony, Ching Shih or the first pirate, Jeanne de Belleville, who had embarked on piracy to avenge her husband? However, That they were at the helm alone, with a lover, a husband, they have many common points. Furthermore, They were all courageous, intrepid, dreaming of freedom and adventure, ”explains Hippolyte Romain, painter.

Four years ago, this piracy enthusiast threw anchor in Morlaix. However, And since then has been made the cantor of a corporation of foams. Moreover, foams of the seas born with the beginnings of navigation. Therefore, His dream: to make the city of the viaduct that of the pirates. Similarly, “In the 17th century. Colbert founded the tobacco factory and instituted a tax to finance the royal navy, while pirates came morlaix, hippolyte roman artist wants to sell their booty in Morlaix. Saint-Malo has become the city of the corsairs? Morlaix should be that of pirates! ».

That they were at the helm alone, with a lover, a husband, they have many common points. They were all courageous, intrepid, dreaming of freedom and adventure!

A slope ignored by piracy – Morlaix, hippolyte roman artist wants

The artist has a high verb, but not only. On the sidelines of the “Baie des Pirates festival”. organized by the eponymous association on July 26 and 27 and of which it is naturally the pillar, it has just published “Pirates and Filibustiers”. The artist intends to give these women their letters of nobility. allowing his readers to apprehend a slope largely ignored by the profession and evokes the Mary Read, Anne Bony, or the first pirate, Jeanne de Belleville.

A “social security” before the letter – Morlaix, hippolyte roman artist wants

Abundantly illustrated with watercolors whose line is not without mentioning a certain Hugo Pratt. the morlaix, hippolyte roman artist wants work also traces a brief history of piracy. We learn in particular that the corporation, for bloodthirsty it was, had set up a “social security” before the letter. The Charter stipulated in particular “that after an approach. a scale of compensation was applied, which attributed crowns or slaves, their quantity depending on what the forban had lost, one eye, one hand or one leg, or both”.

A Morlaix – New Orleans twinning?

The work. nearly a hundred pages, will be available in preview during the festival, which ends this Sunday, then in bookstores. However. Morlaix will not have finished with piracy, that the artist dreams of seeing twinned with New Orleans, “who owes a lot to the filibusters! I have more than ever in the idea of founding a piracy museum. I have a lot of pieces to exhibit. without forgetting the loans of individuals, a hat, a saber, a wooden leg morlaix, hippolyte roman artist wants or a pair of muskets ”.

Practical

“Pirates. Filibusters women”, at Magellan Cie editions, on sale during the “Baie des Pirate festival”, which takes place on Saturday July 26 and Sunday 27 July in the SEW, in Morlaix.