Hyacinthe de Bougainville

Hyacinthe de Bougainville

Hyacinthe de Bougainville
Born 26 December 1781
Brest, France
Died 18 October 1846(1846-10-18) (aged 64)
Paris, France
Allegiance France
Service/branch French Navy
Rank Rear Admiral

Hyacinthe Yves Philippe Potentien, baron de Bougainville (26 December 1781 – 18 October 1846) was a French naval officer. He was the son of Louis-Antoine de Bougainville.[1] He became Rear-Admiral on 1 May 1838.

Career

As a young second-class midshipman of eighteen Hyacinthe de Bougainville participated in the 1800-02 Baudin expedition to Australia.[2]

Hyacinthe de Bougainville sailed around the world from 1824 to 1826 onboard Thétis and Espérance,[1] sent by the Minister of the Navy and the Colonies, the duc de Clermont-Tonnerre.[3]

Frigate Thétis, 1813 model. Musée National de la Marine (Rochefort).

On 12 January 1825, Hyacinthe de Bougainville led an embassy to Vietnam with Captain Courson de la Ville-Hélio, arriving in Da Nang, with the warships Thétis and Espérance.[4] 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 Mạng.[5] Hyacinthe de Bougainville infiltrated Father Regéreau from the Thétis when it was anchored in Da Nang, triggering edicts of persecution against Christianity by Minh Mạng.[6]

Bougainville visited New South Wales in 1825. That same year, he visited Port Jackson[7] and Sydney where he set up a monument to La Pérouse in Botany Bay.[8]

Works

Portrait of Hyacinthe de Bougainville.

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

See also

Notes

  1. 1 2 Randier, p.292
  2. ↑ Horner, F. The French Reconnaissance: Baudin in Australia 1801—1803, Melbourne University Press, Melbourne, 1987 ISBN 0-522-84339-5.
  3. ↑ Colin L. Dyer, The French Explorers and the Aboriginal Australians 1772-1839 p.12
  4. ↑ Oscar Chapuis, A History of Vietnam: From Hong Bang to Tu Duc p. 190.
  5. ↑ Oscar Chapuis, The Last Emperors of Vietnam p.4
  6. ↑ The Vietnamese Response to French Intervention, 1862-1874 p.27
  7. ↑ Colin L. Dyer, The French Explorers and the Aboriginal Australians 1772-1839: 1772-1839 p. 11
  8. ↑ Maria Nugent , Botany Bay: Where Histories Meet p. 101

References

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