May
05
/ 2023
Back in the 1730s, a group of daring Frenchmen embarked on a mission to calculate the true size and shape of the Earth. Led by Charles Marie de la Condamine as part of the famed French Geodesic Mission to the Equator, these explorers braved the treacherous slopes of the Andes. But amidst all these challenges, one man found something even more valuable: a love so strong that it inspired a certain Isabel Gramesón to embark on a 3,000-mile-long adventure through the Amazonian rainforest. Jean Godin, a cartographer and naturalist who was part of the French expedition and the young cousin to the distinguished Louis Godin, fell head over heels for Gramesón, a wealthy 13-year-old girl from Riobamba, in modern-day Ecuador
