The figurehead of “The Hermione” roars at the front of the ship. A funny Basque beret tops the yellow lion sculpture. For seven and a half months, the replica of the “freedom frigate” aboard which the Marquis de La Fayette joined America in 1780 to announce France’s support for the American insurgents against the British Crown, has been infidel at its home port of Rochefort, in Charente-Maritime.
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