René Lesson
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René Primevère Lesson was a French surgeon, naturalist, ornithologist, and herpetologist.
Portrait of Lesson by Tardieu (1827)
Jules Dumont d'Urville
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Jules Sébastien César Dumont d'Urville was a French explorer and naval officer who explored the south and western Pacific, Australia, New Zealand and Antarctica. As a botanist and cartographer, he gav
René Lesson
…round-the-world voyage of La Coquille (1822–1825), of which he collected natural history specimens with his fellow surgeon Prosper Garnot and officer Dumont d'Urville. During his visits to the Moluccas and New Guinea, Lesson became the first naturalist to see birds of paradise in the wild. On returning to Paris, he…
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Inauguration of the monument erected in honour of La Pérouse, shipwrecked and lost on the island of Vanikoro.
Dumont d'Urville's expedition at Vanikoro.
Māori men and women on board Astrolabe performing a dance, with a French officer at right.