Benoît Darondeau (8 April 1805 – 1 March 1869) was a 19th-century French hydrograph engineer. He participated in the expedition around the world of ''
la Bonite'' in 1835–1836.
Born in
Paris
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, he was a son of the composer
Henry Darondeau
Henry Benoît François Darondeau (born as "d'Arondeau") (28 February 1779 – 30 July 1865) was a 19th-century French composer and piano teacher.
Life
Henry Darondeau was born in Strasbourg, Alsace, the son of the Munich-born French composer Ben ...
and one of the brothers of the painter
Stanislas Darondeau
Stanislas-Henri-Benoit Darondeau (4 April 1807 – 12 July 1842) was a French painter, draftsman and engineer who was born in Paris in 1807. The musician Henry Darondeau was his father and Benoît Darondeau one of his brothers.
He exhibited in ...
. He graduated as an engineer from the prestigious
École polytechnique
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* an elementary school in the French educational stages normally followed by secondary education establishments (collège and lycée)
* École (river), a tributary of the Seine flowing in région Île-de-France
* École, Savoi ...
in Paris, one of France's
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* Agustín Muñoz Grandes, Spanish general and politician
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.
Publications
* ''Observations magnétiques'' (''Voyage autour du monde exécuté pendant les années, 1836 et 1837 sur la Corvette La Bonité commandés par M. Vaillant'') (Paris: Arthus Bertrand, 1842–1846).
* ''Notice sur les erreurs des compas dues aux attractions locales à bord des navires en bois et en fer'' (Paris: Dupont, 1858)
* ''Sur l'emploi du compas étalon et la courbe des déviations à bord des navires en fer et autres'' (Paris: Ministère de la Marine et des Colonies, Dépôt des Cartes et Plans de la Marine, 1863).
See also
*
European and American voyages of scientific exploration
Bibliography
* Étienne Taillemite, ''Dictionnaire des marins français'' (Paris: Éditions maritimes & d'outre-mer, 1982), p. 80.
External links
« Autour de Rigault de Genouilly, les marins polytechniciens »(article by Christian Marbach)
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Scientists from Paris
1805 births
1869 deaths
École Polytechnique alumni
French engineers
French hydrographers