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ÎLE TRÉBÉRON |
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L’île de Trébéron on the left hand side. On the second picture one can see the lazaret. The last picture is a view of the three buildings of the powder magazine built on the île aux morts in 1807.
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cross
the
mouse
over
the
photos.
Two
islets :
Tréberon
and
l’Ile
aux
morts
(
two
islands
named
Trébéron,
a
breton
name,
and
the
island
of
the
dead).
Theirs
is
a
very
tragic
story
for
such
little
rocks
in
the
middle
of
the
huge
bay
of
Brest. Just
little
rocks ?
Not
really.
The
Ile
aux
Morts
conceals
fresh
water
underground.
It
was
first
cultivated.
Then
it
was
annexed
by
the
military
in
the
18th
cent. It
was
then
used
as
a
quarantaine
area
for
coming
ship
crews
in
order
to
prevent
epidemics.
In
1756
the
ships
commanded
by
Dubois
de
la
Motte
sailed
back
to
Brest
with
on
their
boards
1000
men
infected
with
typhus.
Part
of
them
were
isolated
on
Treberon.
But
in
spite
of
these
precautions,
the
epidemic
spread
on
the
peninsula,
decimating
entire
families.
The
disease
also
made
quite
a
few
vistims
in
Brest
and
area.
Some
20
years
later,
the
French
Navy
had
a
lazaret
built
on
on
the
island
to
improve
the
life
condition
of
the
sick.
The
convicts
of
Brest’s
penal
colony
were
used
as
nurses.
The
food
was
brought
to
the
island
by
the
population
of
Roscanvel.
In
the
1830,
the
lazaret
stopped
being
used
and
was
replaced
by
the
military
hospital
in
Brest.
In
1870
broke
out
the
Commune
of
Paris
socialist
revolution.
After
the
fall
of
the
Commune,
many
revolutionary
were
interned
in
the
Quelern
fortress
and
on
pontoons
on
the
bay.
The
lazaret
of
Treberon
was
re-opened
for
the
sick
prisoners
who
were
very
little
taken
care
of.
Then,
in
the
20th
cent.,
the
lazaret
was
used
as
a
sanatorium
until
1911.
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