La baleine - Une histoire culturelle. Etrurie in the space of fifty

in the space of fifty years

from one region to another

the Amours bring the pleasure

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La baleine - Une histoire culturelle. Etrurie in the space of fiftyThe whale, the largest and heaviest animal in Creation, has always fascinated human beings. Speculations and fantasies have been all the more numerous since seeing a live whale was for a long time rare. Its history is linked to that of the sea, navigation and fishing. But it is also related to that of knowledge and classifications of the animal world. Hunted since the Neolithic period, the whale nevertheless became better known from the moment (in the