Observations sur la Hollande [and other texts] : manuscript, [18--]

Saint-Pierre, Bernardin de, 1737-1814.

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Bernardin de Saint-Pierre was a French writer and friend of Jean-Jacques Rousseau; he is best known for Paul et Virginie, a short novel about innocent love. From the description of Bernardin de Saint-Pierre letter, Paris, to Monsieur et cher beau-frère, 1810 February 2. (Pennsylvania State University Libraries). WorldCat record id: 40526439 French writer and botanist. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Paris, to Monsieur Daussy, 1806 Mar. 26. (Unk...

Uranie (Corvette)

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Freycinet, Louis Claude Desaulses ˜deœ 1779-1842

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Cartographic surveyor and naturalist. In 1800 Louis de Freycinet joined an expedition under Nicolas Baudin to explore the south and south-west coasts of Australia in the ships Naturaliste and Geographe. He commanded an expedition to circumnavigate the globe and conduct research into the shape of the Earth, meteorology and terrestrial magnetism, sailing from Toulon in September 1817 in L'Uranie with his wife Rose, who secreted herself aboard. He set up an observatory at Shark Bay and charted the ...

Arago, Jacques, 1790-1855

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