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For 265 years, 104 letters written to French
sat on a
in a government building in the U.K. They were never opened. They have been read for the first
in two and a half
. The letters were on a French
captured by the British Navy in 1758. The letters were taken to London, so the sailors on the ship did not have
to open and read their
. The letters were put in
and forgotten about. They gathered
in an archive. A researcher from Cambridge University said
of the letters were love letters.