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without explanation. In May 1942, the
Constables' house was even thoroughly searched by Military Intelligence and the four people questioned; Eric de Bisschop was kept under arrest for three days. It seems that they had been denounced for imaginary crimes. In 1942 Constance de Bisschop wrote two
554:(Muséum national d'histoire naturelle) - 1993 "Son corps fut ramené à Tahiti par le Lotus, stationnaire français de Papeete, après l'impressionnant adieu funèbre de cet îlot perdu. De toutes ces aventures Éric de Bisschop n'a laissé de traces littéraires que dans deux ouvrages .."
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In 1956, he committed himself in a new "odyssey", a project he had had for some years: he built a
Polynesian raft in order to cross the eastern Pacific Ocean from
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to defend her husband. But the revocation had not been cancelled when on
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with a crew of five on
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Bisschop was the only person who died in this accident. He was buried in the island of Rurutu where he had had his house since 1951.
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in 1927. There in 1931 he met the man who was to be his teammate for the seven next years – Joseph
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