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"Le chat du Rabbin" part 5 "Jerusalem d'Afrique"

Born enslaved on Bourbon Island (now La Réunion) in the Indian Ocean. He was barely recognized and received no wealth for his genius, yet his simple method transformed global trade and changed history forever.

His biography written by Gaelle Belem, in "le fruit le plus rare" is striking. (It's in french, but there is an english translation).

As a baby he was offered to a depressed plantation owner and botanist, Ferreol Bellier-Beaumont, to occupy his mind and cure his depression. Edmond was raised as gardener.

The secret of vanilla cultivation was lost after Cortes conquest of Mexico, making the plant unavailable to the world. Bellier-Beaumont like many botanist of his time was tasked with finding a way of pollinating the vanilla flower, unsuccesfully.

In 1841, a year after his owner have given up, Edmond find the secret of the flower on its own : a small membrane separating the pistil and the etamine, and he created a simple method to cultivate the plant.

Despite admitting that Edmond found the method himself without his help, Bellier-Beaumont granted him neither his freedom nor money for 7 year, until he finally freed him one month before slavery was abolished in 1848. (And after the abolition was anounced).

When freed Edmond took the name Albius in reference to the white color of the vanilla flower, and got hired as a cook in rich house. The new abolition of slavery didn't prevent his new employer to exploit him, paying barely enough for him to survive. Out of desperation he stole some food and various items in the house and was sentenced to 10 years in prison.

He was released after 5 years, thanks to the the action of a group of botanists of the island (including its former master), who came to his defense.

He lived the rest of his life in poverty and relatively unknown and died of a fever in his 50s.

I made this table to compare civilisation between the 2 games.

(Probably totally useless, but I enjoyed making it)

I already pre-ordered the next 6 issues that will be realeased until the end of the year.

- Maul special

- Thrawn Special

- last 2 issues of Star Wars (2015)

- Kanaan

- Anakin Skywalker (Republic Era)

In France we had the minitel that started in 1980. You coudn't connect to it from any computer and had to get a special terminal.

Between 1985 and 1995, not every family had one but it was still pretty common to find one in a house. The site adress famously started with 3615 instead of www. And there if was already NSFW sites likes 3615 ULLA with full black and white 100px pictures.

It quickly got supplanted by the Internet in 1995.

But even in 2000s I still used to get my College result faster as the website was saturated.

The network was definitively closed in 2012.