Mathurin-François Boucher

Mathurin François Boucher (1778–1851) was a French naval engineer.

Career

Student at the École Polytechnique in 1794, he took part in the French campaign in Egypt and Syria.

He later designed the Surveillante class of 60-gun frigates.

Sources

Edouard de Villiers du Terrage, Journal et souvenirs sur l'expédition d'Égypte, mis en ordre et publiés par le baron Marc de Villiers du Terrage, Paris, E. Plon, Nourrit, 1899, et L'expédition d'Égypte 1798-1801, Journal et souvenirs d'un jeune savant, Paris, Cosmopole, 2001 et 2003, p. 353.
Yves Laissus, L'Égypte, une aventure savante 1798-1801, Paris, Fayard, 1998, p. 305.

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