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For 265 years, 104 letters written to French
by their loved ones sat on a
in a government building in the U.K. They were never opened, until
. They were read for the first time in two and a half
. The letters were on the French warship Galatée. The
was captured by the British Navy in 1758 during the Seven Years' War of 1756-1763. The sailors on the Galatée were captured before they had time to open and read their
. The letters were taken to London, where they were put in
and forgotten about, gathering
. An academic from Cambridge University said the letters were in an
in London. He said many of
were love letters.