Select Bougainville Bibliography
Proposed Bougainville book
I am preparing material for an atlas about Bougainville showimg all the aspects of his life.
It will take the form of a series of approximately 50 newly prepared maps. The provisional
list of maps will be:
Introduction.
A. Early life and Canada.
B. Iles Malouines (Falkland Islands).
C. The Voyage. Part I: France to Vanuatu
D. The Voyage. Part II: Vanuatu back to France
E. American War of Independence.
F. Married life and old age.
B/L01
1725-1745
a
France
B01
1729-1750
a
Childhood in Paris
b
France
c
Around Paris
B02
Mid 1750s
a
The Army and London
b
Moselle
B03
1756
a
To Canada
b
Ile Royale and Newfoundland
c
Brittany
B04
1750s
a
Quebec and St. Lawrence
b
Quebec
B05
1750s
a
Montreal
b
Around Montreal
B06
1756
a
On to Oswego
b
Fort Frontenac
B07
1756
a
Oswego
b
Eastern Lake Ontario
B08
1757
a
Fort William Henry
b
River Richelieu
c
Lake St. Sacrament
B09
1758
a
Fort Carillon (Ticonderoga)
b
River Richelieu
B10
1758-1759
a
To France and back
b
Lower St. Lawrence River
c
Paris and Versailles
B11
1759
a
Battle of Quebec
b
Around Quebec
B12
1760
a
French defeat in Canada
b
Fort Ile-aux-Noix
c
Fort St. Jean
d
Fort Chambly
B13
1760-1763
a
Under parole in Europe
b
Bellevue
c
Bad Hersfeld
B14
1763-1765
a
To and from the Iles Malouines
b
Santa Catarina
c
Montevideo
d
South American coast
B15
1764-1765
a
Iles Malouines
B16
1764-1765
a
Port Louis
b
Berkeley Sound
B17
1765
a
Strait of Magellan
b
Baie de Bougainville
B18
1766 November-1767 March
a
The Voyage south begins
b
Brittany
c
River Plate
B19
1767 March-December
a
South Atlantic Ocean
b
Rio de Janeiro
c
Berkekley Sound
B20
1767July-November
a
River Plate
b
Buenos Aires
c
Punta Lara
B21
1767 December-1768 January
a
Strait of Magellan
b
Baie de Bougainville (after Bougainville)
B22
1767 December-1768 January
a
Eastern Strait of Magellan
b
Central Strait of Magellan
B23
1768 January-April
a
Into the Pacific
b
Western Strait of Magellan
c
Tuamotu Archipelago
B24
1768 April
a
Nouvelle Cythere (Tahiti)
b
Tahiti
c
Hitiaa
B25
1768 April-May
a
Across the Pacific
b
Central Pacific (after Bougainville)
c
Futuna
B26
1768 May
a
Samoa
b
Tau
c
Tutuila
B27
1768 May
a
Grandes Cyclades (Vanuatu)
b
Aoba
c
Bougainville Strait
B28
1768 May-August
a
To Australia
b
Bougainville Reef
B29
1768 June
a
Louisiade Archipelago
b
Orangerie Bay
B30
1768 June-July
a
Bougainville Island
d
Choiseul
B31
1768 July-August
a
New Ireland
b
Port Praslin
c
Anchorite Islands
B32
1768 August-September
a
Selat Bougainville
b
Buru
c
Boano
d
New Guinea to Buru
B33
1768 September
a
Buru to Batavia
b
Buton
c
North Java coast
d
Batavia (Jakarta)
B34
1768 October-1769 January
a
Batavia to Cape Town
b
Ile de France (Mauritius)
c
Table Bay
B35
1769 January-March
a
Back to France
b
Atlantic Ocean
B36
1778
a
Back to North America
b
Leaving France
c
Delaware Bay
B37
1778-1779
a
Boston
b
Massachusetts Bay
c
South to Martinique
B38
1779
a
West Indies
b
Martinique
c
Grenada
B39
1779
a
Back to France
b
Savannah and Charleston
c
Savannah
B40
1781
a
Chesapeake Bay
b
North Atlantic Ocean
B41
1781-1782
a
To the West Indies
b
St. Kitts to Guadaloupe
c
St. Kitts
B42
1782
a
Iles des Saintes
b
St. Eustatius
c
Lorient and Port Louis
B43
1760s-1780s
a
Homes in Paris
b
Normandy
c
La Becquetiere
B44
1780s
a
Marriage and Normandy
b
Kerdrehu
B45
1780s-1800s
a
Homes around Paris
b
River Yerres
B46
1789-1795
a
French Revolution
b
Brest
c
Coutances
B47
1790s-1811
a
Paris