Louis de Freycinet | |
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| Born | 7 August 1779  Montélimar |
| Died | 18 August 1841 |
| Occupation | Officer of the French Navy |
| Family | Louis Henry de Saulces de Freycinet |
| Dynasty | Saulces de Freycinet |
| Rank | officer candidate (1794–), lieutenant de vaisseau (1803–), capitaine de frégate (1811–), capitaine de vaisseau (1820–) |
Louis Claude de Saulces de Freycinet (7 August 1779 – 18 August 1841) was a French Navy officer. He circumnavigated the Earth, and in 1811 published the first map to show a full outline of the coastline of Australia.
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[Music plays] (Dr. Martin Woods) The British and French were the greatest among many European nations to establish footholds in The Pacific and East Indies or South East Asia during the 1700s. The two expeditions to New Holland, the French one under Baudin, the other a more modest affair coordinated by Flinders for the British Admiralty were launched at almost identical moments, but for different purposes. For Baudin, New Holland was part of a much broader scientific interest in The Pacific. Flinders was a more focused brief to accurately chart the coast of New Holland. In one sense Matthew Flinders was the first person to chart the coast of Australia. With time on his hands on Mauritius he set about drawing up his charts in preparation for his ultimate release. He drew the first map of the Australian coast, but spent the next six or seven years on Mauritius, a guest of the French. His cartographer rival Louis de Freycinet published the first map before Flinders could do anything about it, but in one sense neither Flinders nor Freycinet actually charted the whole coast. While they both charted much of the Southern and Eastern parts of Australia and much more closely than had the Dutch, both had access to the Dutch charts of Northern and Western Australia and made use of these to complete the job and rush the first map of Australia to print. It’s long been held that the British first used the name ‘Australia’ as a derivation of ‘australis’, the Greek word for south when they charted its coast in the early 1800s. Flinders added the name to his general chart drawn in 1804, though it wasn’t officially adopted by the British until the 1820s. But this wasn’t the first time ‘Australia’ appeared on the map. About ten years ago The National Library acquired a rare and rather battered looking German book on astronomy published in 1545, about 250 years before the British ventured the name. In it a map of the World based on Greek cartography, shows the southern continent at the top and named it ‘Australia’, probably just a coincidence.
Biography
He was born at Montélimar, Drôme. Louis-Claude de Saulces de Freycinet was his full name (many calling him Louis de Freycinet). His mother is Élisabeth-Antoinette-Catherine Armand.[1] He had three brothers, Louis-Henri de Saulces de Freycinet, André-Charles de Saulces de Freycinet and the youngest, Frédéric-Casimir de Saulces de Freycinet (father of Charles de Freycinet). Louis-Claude was the second oldest.
In 1793 he joined the French Navy as a midshipman, and took in several engagements against the British. In 1800, Freycinet was appointed to an exploration expedition to Southern and South-Western coasts of Australia under Nicolas Baudin, on Naturaliste and Géographe. Freycinet's brother, Louis-Henri de Freycinet, was also part of the expedition.
Between September 1802 and August 1803, Freycinet captained the schooner Casuarina, surveying the Australian coastline. He then transferred to Naturaliste, and returned to France in 1804.[2] Matthew Flinders was being held captive by the French on Mauritius, thus many of his discoveries were revisited and unintendedly claimed by François Péron, and new names were given by this expedition. In 1824, it was remedied in the second edition of Voyage découvertes aux terres australes.[3] In the end, Baudin and Freycinet managed to have their map of the Australian coastline published in 1811, three years before Flinders published his.[4] An inlet on the coast of Western Australia is called Freycinet Estuary. Cape Freycinet between Cape Leeuwin and Cape Naturaliste and the Freycinet Peninsula with Freycinet National Park in Tasmania also bear the explorer's name.[citation needed]
In 1805, he returned to Paris, and was entrusted by the government with the work of preparing the maps and plans of the expedition. He also completed the narrative, and the whole work appeared under the title of Voyage de découvertes aux terres australes (Paris, 1807–1816).
The plant genus Freycinetia (Pandanaceae) was named in his honor,[5] as was the Hawaiian native tree/shrub Santalum freycinetianum.[6]
In 1817, he was given command of the corvette <i>Uranie</i>, especially reconfigured to a new exploration voyage. Uranie carried several members of the Navy scientific staff, notably marine hydrologist Louis Isidore Duperrey, artist Jacques Arago, and his junior draughtsman Adrien Taunay the Younger.[citation needed]
Uranie sailed to Rio de Janeiro to take a series of pendulum measurements gather information in the fields of geography, ethnology, astronomy, terrestrial magnetism, meteorology, and for collecting specimens in natural history. Freycinet also managed to sneak his wife Rose de Freycinet aboard.[7][2]
For three years, Freycinet cruised about the Pacific, visiting Australia, the Mariana Islands, Hawaiian Islands, and other Pacific islands, South America, and other places, and, notwithstanding the loss of Uranie on the Falkland Islands during the return voyage, returned to France with fine collections in all departments of natural history, and with voluminous notes and drawings of the countries visited.
The results of this voyage were published under Freycinet's supervision, with the title of Voyage autour du monde fait par ordre du Roi sur les corvettes de S. M. l'Uranie et la Physicienne, pendant les années 1817, 1818, 1819 et 1820, in 13 quarto volumes and 4 folio volumes of plates and maps.
Freycinet was admitted into the French Academy of Sciences in 1825, and was one of the founders of the Paris Geographical Society. He died at the family's château de Freycinet[8] near Saulce-sur-Rhône, Drôme.
Journals of the Voyage 1817-1820
- Vol. 1 Part 1: Book I France to Brazil. pub.1827.
- Vol. 1 Part 2: Book II Brazil to Timor. pub.1828.
- Vol. 2 Part 1: Book III Timor to the Marianas. pub.1829.
- Vol. 2 Part 2: Book IV Guam to Hawaii; Book V Hawaii to Port Jackson 1819. pub.1829.
- Vol. 2 Part 3: Book V Hawaii to Port Jackson; Book VI Port Jackson to France 1820. pub.1839.
- Zoology. pub.1824.
- Zoology Plates. pub.1824.
- Botany. pub.1826.
- Botany Plates. pub.1826.
- Navigation and Hydrography, Part 1. pub.1826.
- Navigation and Hydrography, Part 2. pub.1826.
- Pendulum Observations. pub.1826.
- Terrestrial Magnetism. pub.1842.
- Meteorology. pub.1844.
See also
Taxa named in his honor
- The Indonesian speckled carpetshark, Hemiscyllium freycineti is named after him.[9]
- Freycinetia (Pandanaceae)
Notes and references
Notes
References
- ^ Annuaire de la noblesse de France et des maisons souveraines de l'Europe available at Gallica (Directory of the nobility of France and the sovereign houses of Europe), André Borel d'Hauterive
- ^ a b Taillemite (2002), p. 196.
- ^ Fornasiero, F. J.; Peter Monteath; John West-Sooby (2004). Encountering Terra Australis: the Australian voyages of Nicolas Baudin and Matthew Flinders. Wakefield Press. pp. 296ff. ISBN 978-1-86254-625-7. Retrieved 12 January 2011.
- ^ "The French Connection". International League of Antiquarian Booksellers. Retrieved 12 January 2011.
- ^ "Freycinetia cumingiana - Plant Finder". www.missouribotanicalgarden.org. Retrieved 2020-02-26.
- ^ Agriculture Handbook. U.S. Department of Agriculture. 1989.
- ^ Sayers, Stuart (28 April 1962). "A French Wife's Voyage Around the World in Defiance of Orders". The Age. Retrieved 12 January 2011.
- ^ Château de Freycinet.
- ^ Christopher Scharpf & Kenneth J. Lazara (22 September 2018). "Order ORECTOLOBIFORMES (Carpet Sharks)". The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database. Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara. Retrieved 7 March 2022.
Bibliography
- Edward Duyker François Péron: An Impetuous Life: Naturalist and Voyager, Miegunyah/MUP, Melb., 2006, ISBN 978-0-522-85260-8,
- Fornasiero, Jean; Monteath, Peter and West-Sooby, John. Encountering Terra Australis: the Australian voyages of Nicholas Baudin and Matthew Flinders, Kent Town, South Australia, Wakefield Press, 2004. ISBN 1-86254-625-8
- Frank Horner, The French Reconnaissance: Baudin in Australia 1801–1803, Melbourne University Press, Melbourne, 1987 ISBN 0-522-84339-5.
- Marchant, Leslie R. French Napoleonic Placenames of the South West Coast, Greenwood, WA. R.I.C. Publications, 2004. ISBN 1-74126-094-9
- Hordern House, Captain Louis de Freycinet and his Voyages to the Terres Australes, Hordern House, Sydney, 2011 ISBN 978-1-875567-62-1
- Rose de Freycinet (patronymic Pinon) and Federico Motta, curator, Rose de Freycinet. Una viaggiatrice clandestina a bordo dell'Uranie negli anni 1817-20, Verona, Giugno 2017. Translation of Rose original Journal, fully annotated with new documents and with a comprehensive revision of Louis de Freycinet travel, ISBN 9788898023806
- Taillemite, Étienne (2002). Dictionnaire des Marins français. Tallandier. ISBN 2-84734-008-4. OCLC 606770323.
- Rare Freycinet map. Ile Decrès, or Kangaroo Island, 1803, held by the Royal Geographical Society of South Australia [1]
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