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For 265 years, 104 letters written to French
sat on a
in the U.K. They were never opened. They have just been read for the
time. The letters were on a French
captured by Britain in 1758. The French sailors did not have
to open and read their
. The letters were put in
in an
and forgotten about. They gathered
for two and a half
. A researcher said many of the letters were love letters.