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	Louis Antoine de Bougainville - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Bougainville was born in Paris, France, the son of a notary.
		Bougainville's voyage of circumnavigation was also notable for being the first to include a woman, Jeanne BarÃ©, who was the servant of the expedition's naturalist Philibert CommerÃ§on.
		Bougainville 's name is given to the largest member of the Solomon Islands ; and to the strait which divides it from the island of Choiseul.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Louis_Antoine_de_Bougainville (984 words)

	LOUIS ANTOINE DE BOUGAINVILLE - LoveToKnow Article on LOUIS ANTOINE DE BOUGAINVILLE
		BOUGAINVILLE, LOUIS ANTOINE DE (1729-1811), French navigator, was born at Paris on the 11th of November 1729.
		Bougainville obtained the rank of vice-admiral in 1791; and in 1792, having escaped almost miraculously from the massacres of Paris, he retired to his estate in Normandy.
		Bougainvilles name is given to the largest member of the Solomon Islands, which belongs to Germany; and to the strait which divides it from the British island of Choiseul.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /B/BO/BOUGAINVILLE_LOUIS_ANTOINE_DE.htm (536 words)

	Dave Kopel, Paul Gallant & Joanne Eisen on Bougainville on National Review Online
		Named for French sailor Captain Louis de Bougainville who, in 1768, established trade with the islanders, it is the largest island in the Solomon chain.
		Against the wishes of its people, Bougainville found itself ruled by Papua New Guinea when PNG gained independence from Australia in 1975, despite the fact that the Bougainvilleans are more closely related to the Solomon Islanders culturally, ethnically, and geographically; PNG lies more than 900 kilometers away.
		One of the witnesses to the signing of the Bougainville Peace Agreement was New Zealand Foreign Minister Phil Goff, whose country agreed to provide 200 containers (basically, large trunks) for the storage of weapons to be handed in by Bougainvillean ex-combatants.
	www.nationalreview.com /kopel/kopel020602.shtml (2395 words)

	Bougainville (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Bougainville was unhappy with the anchorage and transferred the next day to a neighbouring bay, which he had visited in 1764 and was named after him, Baie Bougainville.
		Bougainville took possession of the island for the French nation, erecting a sign on a tree near the beach and burying a bottle with a message asserting the action.
		Bougainville (who was reluctant himself to promote the Noble Savage theory) and others wrote descriptions of the climate, the vegetation, the ready supply of good food, the lack of a need to do much work, all of which combined to convey the sense that Tahiti was a Utopia.
	www.pacificislandtravel.com /books_and_maps/bougainville.asp (9313 words)

	Louis-Antoine de Bougainville biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Louis-Antoine de Bougainville was born on 12 November 1729, the youngest of the three children of Pierre-Yves de Bougainville and Marie-Francoise d'Arboulin.
		Bougainville's mathematical ability continued to increase and in 1751 he became a pupil of Jean le Rond d'Alembert, the mathematician and one of the principal authors of the Encyclopedie.
		Bougainville speculated that it was Carteret in the Swallow.
	pages.quicksilver.net.nz /jcr/~boug2.html (21121 words)

	Bougainville - The long struggle for freedom
		It is the biggest island lying in the north of the Solomons chain and is a mere eight kilometres from the arbitrary sea border of the independent state of the Solomon Islands.
		The people of Bougainville were never asked by the Australian colonial administration whether they wanted to continue with a "political marriage" to a people and a place they were not related to.
		The mountainous region of Bougainville was buzzing with activity which compounded the anxiety of the landowners as to what was happening to the, once upon a time, serene and undisturbed environment.
	www.eco-action.org /dt/bvstory.html (3806 words)

	Louis-Antoine de Bougainville (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The French Sailor, Soldier, Statesman and Mathematician, Louis-Antoine de Bougainville, was one of the most interesting characters of the Eighteenth Century.
		L'Importance de l'exploration maritime au Siecle des lumieres: a propos du voyage de Bougainville: table ronde.
		Louis-Antoine de Bougainville, 1729-1811: a study in French naval history and politics.
	pages.quicksilver.net.nz /jcr/~boug1.html (270 words)

	The Papua New Guinea – Bougainville peace process (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Bougainville's representative Paul Lapun presents a motion calling for a referendum on the status of Bougainville which is rejected by the Assembly.
		Although Somare promises that the new Bougainville provincial government (established in July) will receive 95 per cent of the royalties, no arrangements are made for increasing the income received by the Nasioi people who have been most affected by the mine.
		The BPC and the four Bougainville MPs meet at Nehan and agree to pursue 'the highest form of autonomy' for Bougainville, as well as a binding referendum on Bougainville's political future.
	www.c-r.org /accord/boug/accord12/chron.shtml (4001 words)

	Bougainville, Louis-Antoine de -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		Bougainville is 75 miles (120 km) long and 40–60 miles (65–95 km) wide.
		U.S. publisher Louis Antoine Godey is known for introducing Godey's Lady's Book, the first periodical in the United States specifically for women.
		The French soldier, explorer, and colonial administrator Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac is a controversial figure.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article?tocId=9015903 (836 words)

	Louis Antoine de Bougainville (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Louis Antoine de Bougainville, the first French officer to circumnavigate the globe, charted a number of islands in the Pacific which he called the Isles de Navigatieurs, May 3 to May 5, 1768.
		As he sailed out of the group he saw Upolu in independent Samoa through a thick fog which prevented him from recording it and two other islands accurately.
		The stamp reproduces a simplified copy of Bougainville's chart of the islands of American Samoa.
	sio.midco.net /dansmapstamps/bougainville.htm (76 words)

	AllRefer.com - Louis Antoine de Bougainville (Explorers, Travelers, And Conquerors) - Encyclopedia
		Louis Antoine de Bougainville [lw E ANtwAn´ d u b OO gaNv E l´] Pronunciation Key, 1729–1811, French navigator.
		Accompanied by naturalists and astronomers, he made a voyage around the world (1767–69), visiting Tahiti in the Society Islands, the Samoan group, and the New Hebrides (now Vanuatu), and rediscovering the Solomon Islands, the largest of which (Bougainville, now a part of Papua New Guinea) is named for him.
		His name is also given to the strait between Bougainville and Choiseul Island, to a strait in Vanuatu, and to the bougainvillaea vine.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/B/BougainvL.html (290 words)

	Bougainville, Louis Antoine de on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Accompanied by naturalists and astronomers, he made a voyage around the world (1767-69), visiting Tahiti in the Society Islands, the Samoan group, and the New Hebrides (now Vanuatu), and rediscovering the Solomon Islands, the largest of which (Bougainville, now a part of Papua New Guinea) is named for him.
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		Divine Browns and the Mighty Whiteman: Exotic Primitivism and the Baudin Voyage to Tasmania in 1802.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/B/BougainvL1.asp (505 words)

	Louis Antoine de Bougainville
		Bougainville, Louis Antoine de (The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition)
		Bougainville, Louis-Antoine de Bougainville, Comte de (The 1998 Canadian Encyclopedia)
		Bougainville, Louis Antoine de (1729-1811) (The Hutchinson Encyclopedia)
	www.infoplease.com /ce6/people/A0808481.html (242 words)

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