Louis Chambrelan was released and returned to France. In 1761, he married again.
“Today we have Zoom and WhatsApp,” Morieux said. “In the eighteenth century, people only had letters but what they wrote about feels very familiar.”
Marie's letter waited 265 years for someone to open it. In the end, the first person to read it was a stranger.
“It is midnight. I think it is time for me to rest.”
