Person

La Pérouse, Jean-François de Galaup (1741 - 1788)

Born
22 August 1741
Albi, France
Died
1788
at sea
Occupation
Navigator
Alternative Names
  • Comte de La Pérouse

Summary

Jean-François de Galaup Le Perouse was the commander of the French expedition to explore the Pacific in 1785.

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Archival resources

Mitchell and Dixson Libraries Manuscripts Collection, State Library of New South Wales

  • Jean-Francois de Galaup La Perouse - Records, 1777 - 1793, B1207; Mitchell and Dixson Libraries Manuscripts Collection, State Library of New South Wales. Details
  • Jean-Francois de Galaup La Perouse - Records, 1829 - 1832, A3973; Mitchell and Dixson Libraries Manuscripts Collection, State Library of New South Wales. Details
  • Pierre Anthonioz - Records, 1958, A4109 and FM 1; Mitchell and Dixson Libraries Manuscripts Collection, State Library of New South Wales. Details

Published resources

Books

  • Dunmore, John, Where Fate Beckons: the Life of Jean François de la Pérouse (Sydney: ABC Books, 2006), 292 pp. Details
  • Dyer, Colin, The French Explorers and Sydney (Brisbane: University of Queensland Press, 2009), 224 pp. Details
  • Gaziello, Catherine, L'Expedition de Laperouse (1785-88), Replique Francaise aux Voyages de Cook (Paris: Comite des Travaux Historiques et Scientifiques, 1984). Details
  • Horner, F, Looking for La Pérouse: D'Entrecasteaux in Australia and the South Pacific 1792-1793 (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1995), 332 pp. Details
  • La Pérouse, Jean François Galaup de, Le Voyage de Lapérouse: de Brest à Botany Bay (Barbizon: Pôles d'images, 2005), 207 pp. Details
  • Lewis, Geoffrey, La Perouse: Why he Came to the Pacific (Randwick: Randwick and District Historical Society, 2006), 54 pp. Details
  • Richard, Helene, Le Voyage de d'Entrecasteaux a la recherche de Laperouse (Paris: C.T.H.S., 1985). Details
  • Williams, Glyn, Naturalists at Sea: Scientific Travellers from Dampier to Darwin (New Haven, Connecticut/London: Yale University Press, 2013), 309 pp. Details
  • Williams, Roger L., French Botany in the Enlightenment: the Ill-fated Voyages of La Perouse and His Rescuers (Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Press, 2003), 240 pp. Details

Book Sections

  • Douglas, Bronwen, 'Expeditions, encounters, and the praxis of seaborne ethnography: the French voyages of La Pérouse and Freycinet' in Expedition into empire: exploratory journeys and the making of the modern world, Thomas, Martin, ed. (New York: London: Routledge, 2015), pp. 109-26. Details
  • Marchant, Leslie R., 'La Perouse, Jean-Francois De Galaup, Comte De (1741-1788), navigator' in Australian dictionary of biography, volume 2: 1788 - 1850 I-Z, Douglas Pike, ed. (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1967), pp. 85-86. http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A020072b.htm. Details

Journal Articles

  • Amalric, P., 'Ocular Manifestations uring the French Travels of Discovery to Australia From Laperouse (1741-1788) to Dumont D'Urville (1790-1842)', Documenta Ophthalmologica, 74 (1-2) (1990), 113-118. Details
  • Cabourdin, Guy, 'On French Soil? The Monument to Laperouse at Botany Bay: an Historical Note', Journal of the Royal Historical Society, 72 (2) (1986), 149-152. Details
  • Hustache, Catherine, 'Le Voyage de Laperouse (1785-1788)', Oceanis, 19 (4) (1993), 17-26. Details
  • Morrison, Doug and Barko, Ivan, 'The Lapérouse expedition and geomagnetism: the unexpected discovery of Lamanon's 'lost' letter and Ledru's instructions', Historical Records of Australian Science, 26 (1) (2015), 1-19, https://doi.org/10.1071/HR14026. Details
  • Rivière, Marc Serge, 'In Honour of a Fellow-Explorer: Flinders' and Bougainville's Monuments to La Pérouse in Mauritius and Botany Bay', Humanities Research, 10 (2) (2003), 9-20. Details

Resources

See also

  • Serle, Percival, Dictionary of Australian biography (Sydney: Angus & Robertson, 1949). Details

McCarthy, G.J.

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