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  Louis de Freycinet - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Louis Claude de Saulces de Freycinet, (August 7, 1779 - August 18, 1842) was a French navigator.
An inlet on the coast of Western Australia, in 26 S., is called Freycinet Estuary, a cape near the extreme south-west of the same coast and the Freycinet Peninsula with Freycinet National Park in Tasmania also bear the explorer's name.
Freycinet was admitted into the French Academy of Sciences in 1825, and was one of the founders of the Paris Geographical Society.
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 Louis de Freycinet -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Louis Claude de Saulces de Freycinet, (August 7, 1779 - August 18, 1842) was a (The Romance language spoken in France and in countries colonized by France) French navigator.
In 1805 he returned to (The capital and largest city of France; and international center of culture and commerce) Paris, and was entrusted by the government with the work of preparing the maps and plans of the expedition.
Freycinet was admitted into the (Click link for more info and facts about French Academy of Sciences) French Academy of Sciences in 1825, and was one of the founders of the Paris Geographical Society.
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 LOUIS CLAUDE FREYCINET - LoveToKnow Article on LOUIS CLAUDE FREYCINET   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
FREYCINET, LOUIS CLAUDE DESAULSES DE (1779-1842), French navigator, was born at Montlimart, Drme, on the 7th of August 1779.
An inlet on the coast of West Australia, in 26 S., is called Freycinet Estuary; and a cape near the extreme south-west of the same coast also bears the explorers name.
Theresults of this voyage were published under Freycinets super-vision, with the title of Voyage autour du monde sur les corvettes lUranie et la Physicienne in 1824-1844, in 13 quarto volumes and 4 folio volumes of fine plates and maps.
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Freycinet, Charles Louis De Saulces De (1828-1923), French statesman and writer.
Freycinet was born at Foix (Ariège) in south-west France.
Montesquieu, Charles Louis de Secondat, Baron de la Brede et de (1689-1755), French writer and jurist, born in the Château of La Brède, and educated...
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 FREYCINET, CHARLES LOUIS DE SAULCES - LoveToKnow Article on FREYCINET, CHARLES LOUIS DE SAULCES   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
DE (1828-), French statesman, was born at Foix on the I4th of November 1828.
In 1858 he wasappointed traffic manager to the Compagnie de chemins de ferdu Midi, a post in which he gave proof of his remarkable talentfor organization, and in 1862 returned to the engineering service(in which he attained in.
The friction between him andGeneral dAurelle de Paladines resulted in the loss of the ad-vantage temporarily gained at Orleans, and he was responsiblefor the campaign in the east, which ended in the destruction ofBourbakis army.
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Louis X, called The Headstrong (1289-1316), king of France (1314-1316), the son of Philip IV.
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Biron, Armand Louis de Gontaut, Duc de (1747-1793), French soldier and revolutionary, great-grandnephew of the military leader Charles de Gontaut....
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 Australia on the Map
July: Frederik De Houtman and J Dedel land in the Swan River region and on the Albrohos and Rottnest Islands in the Dordrecht and the Amsterdam.
November: Wouter Loos and Jan Pelgrom De Bye –two of the mutineers of the Batavia mutiny – are taken in a small boat to the mouth of the Hutt River on the mainland and are left with equipment to fend for themselves as punishment for their role in the mutiny.
Louis de Freycinet publishes “Atlas” in Paris with the first published 'complete' map of the Australian coast including data from the Baudin voyage.
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Saint-Simon, Claude Henri de Rouvroy, Comte de: Saint-Simon, Louis de Rouvroy, Duc de
Saint-Simon, Louis de Rouvroy, Duc de (1675-1755), French writer of memoirs, born in Paris.
Lavoisier collaborated with three French colleagues—Guyton de Morveau, Claude Louis Berthollet, and Antoine François de Fourcroy—to produce their...
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 Print Article: C'est magnifique: early snapshots of an idyllic Sydney
Yet the unique watercolours, maps and drawings that are on show today in Sydney prove that the French explorer Louis de Freycinet and his party, who arrived in Port Jackson on November 18, 1819, were as impressed as any modern camera-carrying backpacker.
Freycinet's collection goes under the Christie's hammer in London on September 26, with 100 lots conservatively expected to raise $3 million.
Freycinet and his team of artists and scientists were greeted warmly by Sydney's elite.
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The fourth brother, Etienne Vincent de (1802 - 1892), is said to have collaborated with Honoré de Balzac in The Heiress of Birague, and from 1822 to 1847 wrote a great number of light dramatic pieces, mostly in collaboration.
As a reward for his adventurous conduct in the cause science, he was elected a member of the Academy of Sciences, at the remarkably early age of twenty-three, and before the close of 1809 he was chosen by the council of the polytechnic school to succeed Gaspard Monge in the chair of analytical geometry.
At the beginning of May 1852, when the government of Louis Napoleon required an oath of allegiance from all its functionaries, Arago peremptorily refused, and sent in his resignation of his post as astronomer at the Bureau des Longitudes.
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 AllRefer.com - Louis Claude Desaulses de Freycinet (Explorers, Travelers, And Conquerors) - Encyclopedia
Louis Claude Desaulses de Freycinet, Explorers, Travelers, And Conquerors
Louis Claude Desaulses de Freycinet[lwE klOd dusOls´ du frAsEnA´] Pronunciation Key, 1779–1842, French marine officer.
He was assigned (1800) to a French exploring expedition in Australian waters; after his return to Paris (1805) he edited the maps and reports of the journey.
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 Voyager Estate: The Name and the VOC   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Between 1791 and 1801 the French explorers Bruny D’Entrecasteau, Nicholas Baudin, Louis de Freycinet and François St Alouarn all added to the knowledge of Australia by mapping the western and southern coastlines from Melville Island, Northern Territory to Freycinet Bay in Tasmania.
De Freycinet made a more detailed survey in 1817.
Louis de Freycinet decorated his maps with Australian flora and fauna from which evolved the cartouche, a garland of flowers incorporating Hermès, Patron Saint of Sailors.
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 Freycinet National Park   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Freycinet is a national park in Tasmania (Australia), 125 km northeast of Hobart.
The closest town to the national park is that of Coles Bay, though the largest close town is Swansea.
Freycinet hugs the rugged Tasmanian coastline and includes the secluded Wineglass Bay, voted by several travel authorities as one of the world's ten best beaches.
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 Charles-Louis de Saulces de Freycinet --  Encyclopædia Britannica
As governor general of New France for two terms, from 1672 to 1682 and 1689 to 1698, Louis de Frontenac pushed the extension of that North American French colony west to present-day Manitoba and south to the Gulf of Mexico.
The 19th-century French poet Charles-Marie-René Leconte de Lisle led the Parnassian movement, which stressed discipline, objectivity, and technical perfection as a reaction against the emotionalism and imprecision of Romanticism.
Biography of Charles Andre Joseph Marie de Gaulle, the French nationalist and statesman who led his country during World War II and became the president of fifth republic of France.
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 Nicolas Baudin (1754-1803) Maps
Freycinet's Carte General de la Nouvelle Hollande was therefore the first chart of Australia, bringing together the results of English and French surveys.
Louis was born in August 1779 and joined the French navy in 1793.
After the expedition's return to France, Freycinet worked on the charts and when the atlas was published in 1811 the entire unknown coast from Wilson's Promontory to the Head of the Bight was shown as Terre Napoleon, with French place names on all the prominent features.
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 Matilda Bay Rotary Club   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
De Freycinet took a small party on to Rottnest and Heirisson took a party up the Swan River to map it as far as possible.
Freycinet had a difficult time, losing his boat on a reef and having to be rescued from Rottnest.
De Freycinet and his crew were eventually rescued by an American Whaling ship 10 weeks later, and taken to Montevideo.
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 CONK! Encyclopedia: Bunbury,_Western_Australia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
The port of Bunbury is the third-largest city in Western Australia and is situated 175 kilometres south of Perth, the state capital.
The first registered sighting of Bunbury was by French explorer Captain Louis de Freycinet from his ship the Casuarina in 1803.
He named the area 'Port Leschenault' after the expedition botanist Leschenault de la Tour.
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 Shire of Shark Bay - History
In 1722 the Frenchman Francois de St Allouarn landed at Cape Inscription, made the first formal claim of territory for France by burying 2 French coins and a parchment in a bottle and also left behind the remains of one of his crew.
Louis de Freycinet and Francois Peron surveyed all the inlets between Dirk Hartog Island and the Peron Peninsular, while Pierre Faure was sent to chart the Eastern Bay.
In 1818 the French explorer Louis de Freycinet (Who had been a member of the Baudin expedition in 1801 – 1803) visited Peron on the “Uranie”.
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 Agora French Club | Library: Text
1817 - Louis Claude de Saulces de Freycinet.
During Flinders long incarceration on Mauritius, Péron and De Freycinet, the geographers of Baudin's voyage, had been able to publish their results first, and they had renamed every feature they noted, quote "without the slightest regard for the work of previous explorers".
Louis Claude de Saulces de Freycinet was a French naval officer and navigator.
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Louis de Freycinet surveyed the coast north from Cape Bernier to Point Bailly, which was probably named after Charles Bailly, the expedition's mineralogist.
The two men were Peron and Louis de Freycinet who, it seems, spent much of their time spying out the land and gave French authorities details of how best to attack the colony.
Freycinet named the Jussieu Peninsula south of Port Lincoln after Professor Antoine-Laurent de Jussieu, a French botanist at the Museum National d’Histoire Naturelle (National Natural History Museum) in Paris and a member of the Institut National of France.
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 Articles - History of Western Australia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
In 1697 the Flemish sea captain Willem de Vlamingh also reached the island and finding Hartog's pewter plate still near its original position he removed it and replaced it with another plate.
In 1818 the French explorer Louis de Freycinet, while exploring the coast, came across de Vlamingh's plate and removed it to France.
The plate was eventually returned to Australia in 1947 and is currently housed in the Maritime Museum in Fremantle.
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 Charles-Louis de Saulces de Freycinet --  Encyclopædia Britannica
Freycinet graduated from the École Polytechnique and entered government service as a mining engineer, eventually rising to the position…
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Born in Boston, Mass., on Jan. 13, 1899, motion picture producer and director Louis de Rochemont is best known for The March of Time, a highly popular newsreel series on current events that he produced from 1935 to 1951.
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 bellebyrd: Rose de Freycinet
A remarkable story in the grand tradition of nineteenth-century romantic seafaring adventures, A Woman of Courage records the extraordinary journey of 22-year-old Rose De Freycinet, through her spellbinding letters to friends and family from 1817 to 1820.
Refusing to face a painful separation form her husband, a naval officer appointed by the French government to command a round-the-world scientific expedition, Rose dressed in an officer’s uniform and stowed away on board the Uranie.
Further, a woman was on board one of Louis de Bougainville’s ships on his circumnavigation (Godard to McCarthy, February, 2002), and Marie Louise Victoire Giradin, disguised as a man, sailed as crew on board the Recherche, one of d’Entrecasteaux’s ships.
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 Freycinet, Louis-Claude de Saulces de - Bright Sparcs Biographical entry
Freycinet, Louis-Claude de Saulces de - Bright Sparcs Biographical entry
Louis-Claude de Saulces de Freycinet was part of the expedition sent to complete the French cartographic survey of Australia and conduct other scientific investigations 1800-4.
Freycinet, Louis Henri de Saulces de (1777 - 1840)
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 Louis Claude De Saulses De Freycinet History Summary   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Louis Claude De Saulses De Freycinet History Summary
In 1800 he was chosen by Napoleon for an expedition to complete surveys and natural science observations along the coast of Australia.
His extensive account of the voyage comprised 13 volumes and was fully published in 1844, two years after his death.
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 Ships of the World: An Historical Encyclopedia - - L'Uranie   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
The last decade of the Napoleonic Wars forestalled all attempts by the French to dispatch any voyages of exploration, but in 1816, Captain Louis de Freycinet was appointed to command a one-ship scientific expedition in L'Uranie.
Among the ship's company were Rose de Freycinet, the captain's wife (who was disguised as a midshipman until the ship reached Gibraltar).
At Dirk Hartog's Island in Shark Bay, Australia, Freycinet found an inscribed pewter plate that Willem Vlamingh in 1697 used to replace one originally dedicated by Hartog, sailing in Eendracht in 1616.
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 MSN Encarta - Freycinet, Charles Louis de Saulces de
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Freycinet, Charles Louis de Saulces de (1828-1923), French statesman and author.
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He edited the scientific findings and the narrative of the journey, which appeared as Voyage autour du monde (13 vol., 1824-44).
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