Person
Freycinet, Louis Henri Desaulses de (1777 - 1840)
- Born
- 31 December 1777
France - Died
- 21 March 1840
- Occupation
- Naval officer
Summary
Louis Henri Desaulses de Freycinet, the older brother of Louis Claude, visited the Pacific with Baudin's expedition 1800-1804 on "Le Geographe" with the rank of 'etat-major du premier'.
Related entries
Sibling
Archival resources
Mitchell and Dixson Libraries Manuscripts Collection, State Library of New South Wales
- Louis Henri desaulses de Freycinet - Records, 1803 - 1809, FM 4/1740; Mitchell and Dixson Libraries Manuscripts Collection, State Library of New South Wales. Details
Published resources
Books
- Dyer, Colin, The French Explorers and Sydney (Brisbane: University of Queensland Press, 2009), 224 pp. Details
- Fornasiero, Jean; and West-Sooby, John, "Roaming freely throughout the universe": Nicholas Baudin's voyage to Australia and the pursuit of science (Mile End, S.A.: Wakefield Press, 2021), 340 pp. Details
- Marchant, Leslie, France Australe: a study of French exploration and attempts to found a penal colony and strategic base in south western Australia 1503-1826 (Perth: Artlook Press, 1982), 384 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
Edited Books
- Gerritsen, Rupert, King, Robert and Eliason, Andrew eds, The Freycinet map of 1811: Proceedings of the Symposium Commemorating the 200th Anniversary of the Publication of the First Map of Australia: Louis de Freycinet (1779 - 1841) (Acton (A.C.T.): Australia on the Map Division of the Australasian Hydrographic Society, 2012), 103 pp. Details
Journal Articles
- Gerritsen, Rupert and Reynders, Peter, 'The Freycinet Map of 1811: the First Full Map of Australia?', The Globe, 72 (2013), 1-10. Details
- Konishi, Shino, 'The "brilliant shells" of Shark Bay: the emotions of shell-collecting', Studies in Western Australian history, 35 (2020), 21-36. Details
- Mayer, W., 'First geological investigations in Australia and Antarctica by French scientists, naturalists, and surgeons on voyages of discovery, between 1792 and 1840', Travaux du Comité français d’histoire de la géologie, ser. 3, 36 (2022), 127-45, https://hal.science/hal-04424124v1/document. Details
- Starbuck, Nicole, '"Naturally fearful": emotion, race and French-Papuan encounters, 1818 -30', Journal of Pacific History, 51 (4) (2016), 357-74. Details
Resources
- Wikidata, http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q3262171. Details
- VIAF - Virtual International Authority File, OCLC, https://viaf.org/viaf/67245777. Details
- 'Freycinet, Louis Henri Desaulses de (17771231-18400321)', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-1476601. Details
McCarthy, G.J.
Created: 20 October 1993, Last modified: 2 March 2018
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