Ange Auguste Joseph de Laborde de Marchainville (7 July 1766,

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- 13 July 1786, in the Baie des Français, Lituya,

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) was a French explorer. He was a member of the La Perouse expedition on which he died. His father was the very rich court banker

Jean-Joseph de Laborde Jean-Joseph, marquis de Laborde (29 January 1724 – 18 April 1794) was a French businessman, '' fermier général'' and banker to the king, who turned politician. A liberal, he was guillotined in the French Revolution. Biography Laborde was b ...

, fermier général from 1759 to 1768, and a major figure in the financial, political and fashionable circles of the day. After Ange and his brother

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died on the Lapérouse expedition, Jean-Joseph and his wife raised a blue-turquoise marble

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beside a pool at his

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, decorated with 4 ships' bows, to glorify their virtues.

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His genealogy on geneanet samlap
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