Louis-Antoine de Bougainville
Eighteenth Century French Sailor, Soldier, Statesman, Mathematician and leader of a
Voyage around the world
The French Sailor, Soldier, Statesman and Mathematician, Louis-Antoine de
Bougainville, was one of the most interesting characters of the Eighteenth Century. Born
in Paris in 1729, he led a voyage around the world in the 1760s which had far-reaching
repercussions in the way European Society perceived life in the Pacific. The notion of the
"Noble savage" had some of its roots in the reports given by members of Bougainville's
expedition of their short time on the island of Tahiti.
Links to other Bougainville sites
Select Bougainville Bibliography
- New titles (2005)
- Dunmore, John. Storms and dreams. Louis de Bougainville: soldier,
explorer, statesman. Auckland: Exisle, 2005. 0908988575.
- Suthren, Victor. The Sea has no end: the life of Louis-Antoine de
Bougainville. Toronto: The Dundurn Group, 2004. 1550025198.
- Biographies and accounts of the Voyage.
- Boissel, Thierry.Bougainville, ou, L'homme de l'univers. Paris: O.
Orban, 1991.
- Bougainville, Louis-Antoine de.Adventure in the wilderness: the American
journals of Louis Antoine de Bougainville, 1756-1760, translated and edited
by Edward P. Hamilton. Norman, Oklahoma: University of Oklahoma Press, 1964.
- Bougainville, Louis-Antoine de. Voyage autour du monde par la Frigate,
La Boudeuse et La Flute L'Étoile. Paris: La Decouverte, 1997. 2707127094.
- Bougainville, Louis-Antoine de. A Voyage round the world, translated
from the French by John Renhold Forster. Bibliotheca Australiana #12. Amsterdam:
N. Israel, 1967
- Bougainville et ses compagnons autour du monde: 1766-1769, joutnaux de
navigation, etablis et commentes par Etienne Taillemite. 2 vol. Paris:
Imprimerie Nationale, 1977.
- Caseaux, Yves.Dans le sillage de Bougainville et Laperouse.Paris: A.
Michel, 1995.
- Dorsenne,Jean.La Vie de Bougainville.Paris:Gallimard, 1930
- Dunmore, John. French explorers in the Pacific. Volume 1: The Eighteenth
Century. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1965. (in English)
- Dunmore, John. Storms and dreams. Louis de Bougainville: soldier,
explorer, statesman. Auckland: Exisle, 2005. 0908988575.
- L'Importance de l'exploration maritime au Siecle des lumieres: a propos du
voyage de Bougainville: table ronde. organisee par M. Mollat et E.
Taillemite. Paris: Editions de Centre national de la recherche scientifique,
1982
- Kerallain, Rene de. La Jeunesse de Bougainville et la guerre de sept ans.
Paris: Daupeley-Gouverneur, 1896.
- Kimbrough, Mary. Louis-Antoine de Bougainville, 1729-1811: a study in
French naval history and politics. Lewiston: E. Mellen Press, 1990.
0889467447.
- Martin-Allanic, Jean Étienne. Bougainville, navigateur et les découverts
de son temps.2 vol. Paris: Presses universitaires de France, 1964.
- Parkman, Francis. France and England in North America. Volume IX: Montcalm
and Wolfe, Part II. New York: Frederick Ungar Publishing, 1965.
- Ross, Michael. Bougainville. London: Gordon & Cremonesi, 1978.
0860330591.
- Suthren, Victor. The Sea has no end: the life of Louis-Antoine de
Bougainville. Toronto: The Dundurn Group, 2004. 1550025198.
- Taillemite, Étienne. Sur des mers inconnues. Bougainville, Cook,
Laperouse. Paris: Decouvertes Gallimard, 1997. 2070530388.
- Thiéry, Maurice. Bougainville, soldat et marin. Paris: Roger, 1930.
- Touchard, Michel Claude.Les Voyages de Bougainville.Papeete, Tahiti:
Les Editions du Pacifique, 1974.
- Waggaman, Beatrice Elisabeth. Le Voyage autor du monde de Bougainville:
droit et imaginaire. Nancy: Presses universitaires de Nancy, 1992.
286480476X.
- Fiction based upon Bougainville's life
- Brooks, Peter. World elsewhere. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1999.
0684853337.
- Quefflelec, Henri. La Boudeuse, ou, Le Tour du monde de Bougainville.
Paris: Seghers, 1986. 2232100324.
- Peyramaure, Michel. Pacifique Sud: roman. Paris: Presses de la Cite,
1994. 2258000971.
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