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The Golden Age of the "French Line"
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The Golden Age of the "French Line"
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The Golden Age of the "French Line"
<div align="justify">More peaceful, but just as enthusiastically fought as the sea battles of the previous war, the "Blue Ribbon" race mobilized ship-builders, engineers, and sailors of the period between the two wars. Although France had produced Denis Papin and Marc Isambard Brunel, creator of the gigantic steamship, The Great Eastern and Frederic Sauvage, who invented the spinning propeller, Samuel Cunard’s British steamers ruled the seas in the XIXth century.</p>
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