They also accused the governor of feasting after his safe arrival by lifeboat in Senegal and seemingly forgetting about the castaways. Corréard's views on the abolition of slavery may well have influenced Géricault. Slavery had been banned by Napoleon at the end of his reign and by the restored monarchy. Moreover, both Savigny and Corréard, who was a leading abolitionist, drew attention to the illegal renewal of the slave trade in Senegal under the new governor,Julien-Désiré Schmaltz, who was on the Medusa and was complicit in the captain's actions. Corréard saw this as a mild punishment and actively campaigned for the death penalty. On February 24, 1817, at an unannounced naval proceeding, de Chaumereys was found guilty by his peers of criminal negligence and of conduct unbecoming an officer for abandoning the raft and leaving able-bodied men aboard the ship he received a 3-year prison term and forfeited his naval position, title, and honor. Musée du Louvre, Paris, France, Giraudon/Bridgeman Art Library. Following the publication of their book, funds were raised through a subscription on behalf of the survivors that attracted prominent donors, including General Lafayette and the psychiatrist J. Their book described the drastic means they had taken to survive on the raft to a confused public, who was coping with the restoration of the monarchy after Napoleon's final defeat. When it was not forthcoming, they published their story of abandonment by an incompetent captain, a royalist political appointee, Hugues Duroys de Chaumereys (1763-1841), who had little previous navigational experience. Corréard, the chief engineer and geographer, and Savigny, the second surgeon, had expected recognition and reward from their government. Intrigued by their story, Géricault visited other survivors who had been transferred to hospitals in Paris, France. Only 15 of 150 of those abandoned on the raft had survived 13 days on the open sea off the coast of Africa until their rescue by the crew of the brig Argus 5 more died shortly after being rescued. 2 Corréard's and Savigny's account drew universal outrage. He met with the authors in November 1817 to discuss their ordeal. Henry Savigny and Alexandre Corréard and other shipwrecked survivors after abandonment on a raft following the shipwreck of the frigate Medusa. Th Éodore G Éricault (1791-1824) read the tragic tale Narrative of a Voyage to Senegal in 1816, an account of the extraordinary suffering experienced by J. Very moment an officer who was in the governor's boat cried out aloud, “Shall I let go?” Mr Clanet opposed it, answering with firmness, “No, no!” Some persons joined him, but could obtain nothing, the towrope was let go . . . a cry of “we forsake them” was heard. . . . Shared Decision Making and Communication.Scientific Discovery and the Future of Medicine.Health Care Economics, Insurance, Payment.Clinical Implications of Basic Neuroscience.Challenges in Clinical Electrocardiography.
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