What if France reigned over the Big Apple? What if we spoke French in the New York boroughs? If only François I had not been taken prisoner … A documentary, rebroadcast on Saturday on LCP, revisits this moment – forgotten and fleeting – when New York was called … Angoulême.
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1524.: Giovanni Verrazzano, navigator under the orders of François Ier goes back, aboard “La Dauphine”, the north coast of the United States in search of a shortcut to the route to India and discovers for the first time the site of the future New York he baptized “Angoulesme”.
He sends his logbook to his king and two other copies to the Lombard bankers who financed the expedition.
1525. Battle of Pavia. François Ier is taken prisoner by Charles V, he will never receive the document from Verrazzano. The history of New York la Charentaise lasted only a year. In collective memory, it is forgotten.
1904. More than four centuries later, here it reappears: John Pierpont Morgan, banker in New York, one day buys old manuscripts in Venice, including Verrazzano’s famous logbook. The document catches his attention, he decides to restore the parchment and exhibits it in his private library.
1950. Jacques Habert, a history teacher at the French high school in New York, heard about this forgotten anecdoct and wishes to use it to document and tell it. He obtains permission to translate the manuscript, the story can begin …
“And if New York was called Angoulême” is a documentary written and directed by Marie-France Brière, co-produced by France 3 Nouvelle-Aquitaine and the agency La Curiosité.
A nice film by Marie France Brière produced by @F3PoitouChtes cc @LManeufiwan https://t.co/dBTGl5SYZP
– Dominique Papon (@dpapon) July 19, 2020
First broadcast: Monday, September 9, 2019 at 11:00 p.m.
Last replay: Saturday July 18, 2020, on La Chaine Parlementaire
Replay available here
In November 2018, a team from France 3 went to the set:
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