Naufragor

A naufragor is that which voluntarily causes the shipwreck of a ship. It is generally placed along the coasts, and seeks to mislead the ship according to the shore to attract it on reefs, in order to grow rich while seizing their cargo.

To the 12th century, in Brittany, the Droit of breaking allotted to the lord of the place the wrecks rejected on the shore, which pushed some of them to cause these shipwrecks. The frequency of these caused shipwrecks pushed Henri II of England to intervene in the province in 1166.

considers with condescension the surrounding countryside from which it ignored the life and was unaware of the language. The peasants low-Breton of the Country Pagan delivered to the Superstition inspired mistrust and sometimes the abomination.

If their ancestors had perhaps caused shipwrecks when the Providence did not cause them itself; they were not any more, at the beginning of the 19th century, which one wanted to let believe. Under Louis Philippe, the romantic topic of the naufagor was often treated.

The inhabitants of the Pagan Country carried out a difficult life and were to often face the marine elements to collect the goémon. They saw arriving the remains of the shipwrecks like a blessing. For them, all that the sea brings to them belongs to those which gives each other the evil to sometimes recover it with their risks and dangers.

The plunderers were interested mainly in wood, clothing and alcohol. They of course did not show violent one towards the crews in condition that those were not opposed to plundering. the plunderers carry help to the survivors. -->

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