Hyacinthe de Bougainville

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name= Hyacinthe de Bougainville
lived= 1781-1846
placeofbirth= Brest, France
placeofdeath= Paris, France


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Hyacinthe Yves Philippe Potentien, baron de Bougainville (1781 — 1846) was a French naval officer. He was the son of Louis-Antoine de Bougainville. [Randier, p.292] He became Rear-Admiral on 1 May 1838.

Career

As a a young second-class midshipman of eighteen Hyacinthe de Bougainville participated in the 1800-02 Baudin expedition to Australia. [Jean Fornasiero, Peter Monteath, John West-Sooby, "Encountering Terra Australis" p.62 [http://books.google.com/books?id=hmVKQQ6zSaUC&pg=PA62&dq=Hyacinthe+de+Bougainville&lr=&sig=ACfU3U1rqMtydSOQkIlEVGG9Mfwx4qqMzQ] ]

Hyacinthe de Bougainville sailed around the world from 1824 to 1826 onboard "Thétis" and "Espérance", [Randier, p.292] sent by the Minister of the Navy and the Colonies, the duc de Clermont-Tonnerre. [Colin L. Dyer, "The French Explorers and the Aboriginal Australians 1772-1839" p.12 [http://books.google.com/books?id=gnu_RmVvypMC&pg=PA11&dq=%22Hyacinthe+de+Bougainville%22&sig=ACfU3U3J-ZBbxXm2xcWkocbBH7ng9KRKXw#PPA12,M1] ] On 12 January 1825, Hyacinthe de Bougainville led an embassy to Vietnam with Captain Courson de la Ville-Hélio, arriving in Danang, with the warships "Thétis" and "Espérance". [Oscar Chapuis, "A History of Vietnam: From Hong Bang to Tu Duc" p. 190.] Although they had numerous presents for the Emperor, and a 28 January 1824 letter from Louis XVIII, the ambassadors could not obtain an audience from Minh Mang. [Oscar Chapuis, "The Last Emperors of Vietnam" p.4 [http://books.google.com/books?id=9RorGHF0fGIC&pg=PA4&dq=Bougainville+Danang&sig=ACfU3U0DB5y6exGyUoY2foqpOWxsHHy47A] ] Hyacinthe de Bougainville infiltrated Father Regéreau from the "Thétis" when it was anchored in Danang, triggering edicts of persecution against Christianity by Minh Mang. ["The Vietnamese Response to French Intervention, 1862-1874" p.27 [http://books.google.com/books?id=hWjx-6WM6PMC&pg=PA25&dq=Bougainville+Danang&sig=ACfU3U3Ta5vUQoDiNHUBwvFtl-5r-yM1Eg#PPA27,M1] ]

Bougainville visited New South Wales in 1825. That same year, he visited Port Jackson [Colin L. Dyer, "The French Explorers and the Aboriginal Australians 1772-1839: 1772-1839" p. 11 [http://books.google.com/books?id=gnu_RmVvypMC&pg=PA11&dq=Hyacinthe+de+Bougainville&sig=ACfU3U3J-ZBbxXm2xcWkocbBH7ng9KRKXw#PPA12,M1] ] and Sydney where he set up a monument to La Pérouse in Botany Bay. [Maria Nugent , "Botany Bay: Where Histories Meet" p. 101 [http://books.google.com/books?id=iV2vm6x0V6EC&pg=PA101&dq=Hyacinthe+de+Bougainville&sig=ACfU3U1Z0eUWjgevbb10TMk_PKlLAMyKng] ]

Works

"Journal de la Navigation Autour Du Globe de la Frégate Thétis et de la Corvette L'Espérance" (Paris : Arthus Bertrand) 1837.

ee also

*France-Vietnam relations

Notes

References

*Randier, Jean 2006 "La Royale" Editions Babouji ISBN 2352610222