Jacques Labillardière
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Jacques-Julien Houtou de Labillardière was a French biologist noted for his descriptions of the flora of Australia. Labillardière was a member of a voyage in search of the La Pérouse expedition. He published a popular account of his journey and produced the first Flora on the region.
1821 portrait of Labillardière
A plaque commemorating Labillardière's December 1792 landing in Esperance, Western Australia
Jean-François de Galaup, comte de Lapérouse
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Jean François de Galaup, comte de Lapérouse, often called simply Lapérouse, was a French naval officer and explorer. Having enlisted at the age of 15, he had a successful naval career and in 1785 was appointed to lead a scientific expedition around the world. His ships stopped in Chile, Hawaii, Alaska, California, Mauritius, Reunion, Macau, Japan, Russia and Australia before wrecking on the reefs of Vanikoro in the Solomon Islands.
La Pérouse, with the Order of Saint Louis, 1778, by Geneviève Brossard de Beaulieu
Lapérouse victoriously led the frigate Astrée in the naval battle of Louisbourg, 21 July 1781, by Auguste-Louis de Rossel de Cercy.
Louis XVI, seated at right, giving Lapérouse his instructions on 29 June 1785, by Nicolas-André Monsiau (1817). (Château de Versailles)
Bust of Jean-François de Galaup, comte de Lapérouse, by the sculpture workshop of Brest arsenal. On display at Brest naval museum