5 Minute Biographies

“The sea, once it casts its spell, holds one in its net of wonder forever.” Jacques Cousteau Jacques-Yves Cousteau was born on 11 June 1910 in Saint-André-de-Cubzac, Gironde, which is not too far from Bordeaux in South-Western France. He initially attended preparatory school at the exclusive Collège Stanislas in Paris before entering France’s naval academy …