The first episode of this two-parter covers the French mission to Senegal that the frigate Medusa led in 1816. Soon, the mission fell disastrously apart.&nbsp; Research: <ul> <li>Amigo, Ignacio. &ldquo;How a biologist turned amateur sleuth to solve a century-old art riddle.&rdquo; The Guardian. Oct. 23, 2023. https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2023/oct/27/how-a-biologist-turned-amateur-sleuth-to-solve-a-century-old-art-riddle</li> <li>Barran, Julian. &ldquo;Th&eacute;odore G&eacute;ricault, Illustrations to Alexandre Corr&eacute;ard&rsquo;s &lsquo;Le Naufrage de La M&eacute;duse.&rsquo;&rdquo;&nbsp;The Burlington Magazine, vol. 119, no. 889, 1977, pp. 311&ndash;310.&nbsp;JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org/stable/878824</li> <li>Baudelaire, Charles. &ldquo;WHAT IS ROMANTICISM?&rdquo; The Salon of 1848. https://writing.upenn.edu/library/Baudelaire-Salon-1848.pdf</li> <li>Burgos, Javier S. &ldquo;A new portrait by G&eacute;ricault.&rdquo; The Lancet Neurology, Volume 20, Issue 2, 90 &ndash; 91. https://www.thelancet.com/journals/laneur/article/PIIS1474-4422(20)30479-8/fulltext</li> <li>Burgos, Javier. S. &ldquo;In search of Th&eacute;odore G&eacute;ricault&rsquo;s lost monomanias.&rdquo; Metode. June 3, 2024. https://metode.org/issues/article-revistes/in-search-of-theodore-gericaults-lost-monomanias.html</li> <li>Dard, Charlotte Adelaide Picard. &ldquo;The sufferings of the Picard family after the shipwreck of the Medusa, in the year 1816.&rdquo; Constable and Co. Edinburgh, Scotland. 1827. Accessed online: https://www.gutenberg.org/files/22792/22792-h/22792-h.htm</li> <li>Dione, Babacar and Mark Banchereau. &ldquo;France withdraws from Senegal, ending its permanent military presence in West Africa.&rdquo; AP. July 17, 2025. https://apnews.com/article/senegal-france-military-withdrawal-57d150687e18cd20ac6a6d7194821208</li> <li>The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica. "Treaties of Paris".&nbsp;Encyclopedia Britannica, 23 May. 2025, https://www.britannica.com/event/Treaties-of-Paris-1814-1815</li> <li>&ldquo;The Frigate Medusa &hellip; &ldquo; The Raleigh Minerva. Nov. 4, 1816. https://www.newspapers.com/image/58081420/?match=1&terms=medusa</li> <li>&ldquo;Gericault.&rdquo; The Illustrated Magazine of Art, Vol. 2, No. 11 (1853), pp. 282-283 Stable URL: https://www.jstor.org/stable/20538136</li> <li>G&eacute;ricault, Th&eacute;odore. &ldquo;Cuirassier bless&eacute;, quittant le feu.&rdquo; 1814. Louvre. https://collections.louvre.fr/ark:/53355/cl010059200</li> <li>G&eacute;ricault, Th&eacute;odore. &ldquo;Race of the Riderless Horses.&rdquo; 1817. Getty Museum. https://www.getty.edu/art/collection/object/103RH8</li> <li>G&eacute;ricault, Th&eacute;odore. &ldquo;Race of the Riderless Horses at Rome, Study.&rdquo; 1817. The Met. https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/665793</li> <li>Huet, Marie-H&eacute;l&egrave;ne. &ldquo;The Face of Disaster.&rdquo;&nbsp;Yale French Studies, no. 111, 2007, pp. 7&ndash;31.&nbsp;JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org/stable/20479368</li> <li>&ldquo;Loss of the French Frigate Medusa.&rdquo; Hartford Courant. Oct. 29, 1816. https://www.newspapers.com/image/1105494685/?match=1&terms=medusa</li> <li>Miles, Jonathan. &ldquo;The Wreck of the Medusa.&rdquo; Atlantic Monthly Press. 2007.</li> <li>Savigny, Jean Baptiste Henri, and Alexandre Correard. &ldquo;Narrative of the Voyage to Senegal.&rdquo; London : Printed for Henry Colburn. 1818. https://archive.org/details/narrativeofvoyag00savirich/page/xiv/mode/2up</li> <li>Smith, Roberta. &ldquo;Art Review: Oui, Art Tips From Perfidious Albion.&rdquo; New York Times. Oct. 10, 2003. https://www.nytimes.com/2003/10/10/arts/art-review-oui-art-tips-from-perfidious-albion.html</li> </ul>See <a href="https://omnystudio.com/listener">omnystudio.com/listener</a> for privacy information.

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