Mois: mars 2023

Sacagawea was the Shoshone woman who accompanied Lewis and Clark on their journey to the Pacific. She and her husband Toussaint Charbonneau (French-Canadian) were hired as guides and interpreters. Sacagawea was particularly important to the Corps of Discovery in that she knew the terrain, the native plants as foods and medicines and she knew the Shoshones who provided horses to cross the mountains. You could say they expedition might have failed if not for Sacagawea. Today she is honored on a one dollar coin and her name graces many natural features in the Rocky Mountains. We never thought we'd come across Sacagawea's name in Boulogne-Billancourt! But she has been selected as part of an exhibition on women travellers called ÉTONNANTES VOYAGEUSES AUTOUR DU MONDE honored for International Women's Day. For a long time, the woman who traveled alone was considered an “adventurer”, in the sense of spy and courtesan. Despite social pressure, many have managed to overcome the pr…