On April 10, 1912, the Titanic, the flagship of the prestigious British shipping company White Star Line, stopped at Cherbourg to embark 281 passengers, 151 in first class, 28 in second and 102 in third. Four days later, his maiden voyage ended tragically in the North Atlantic off the coast of Newfoundland, giving rise to one of the greatest myths of the 20th century. Without this terrible accident, what would we have learned from the Titanic and the history of the more than 2,200 people on board: illustrious pleasure and business passengers, emigrants leaving Europe for the New World and crew members in the service of a ship that everyone imagined invulnerable?
One hundred years after this terrible but fascinating tragedy, Cherbourg reclaims its history, both to explore the myth of the Titanic, but also to dive into its transatlantic past. At the peak of traffic in 1926, Cherbourg welcomed 816 passenger stopovers and nearly 200,000 passengers. Among them, almost a quarter are emigrants. Having just left their native country and after a long journey through all of Europe, they are waiting at Cherbourg for the liner that must take them across this immense ocean separating them from a new life, in a world they hope for better...
