Pierre Ange François-Xavier Faure (1777,
Nantes
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– 1855) was a French geographer who participated in the
expedition to the South Seas that
Nicolas Baudin led between 1800 and 1803 and that was back in March 1804 in
Lorient.
Installed first on the ''
Naturaliste'' during this
voyage of scientific exploration, he was the first to see and draw the plan of
Faure Island
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, an island in
Shark Bay
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on the Western Australian coast to which the expedition gave his name.
He boarded the ''
Géographe'' at
Port Jackson on 3 November 1802. On 15 décembre 1803, at his request, he left the end of the expedition when it stopped at
île de France on its return.
Pierre Faure was a corresponding member of the
Société des observateurs de l'homme Société des observateurs de l'homme, rendered in English as Society of Observers of Man, was a French learned society founded in Paris in 1799. Long considered the birthplace of French anthropology, the society nevertheless dissolved in 1804.
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Bibliography
*
Nicolas Baudin, ''Mon voyage aux Terres australes'', journal personnel du commandant Baudin, imprimerie nationale, 2000
*Dany Bréelle, ''Les Géographes de l'expédition Baudin et la reconnaissance des côtes australes'', in (éd) ''Portés par l'air du temps: les voyages du capitaine Baudin'', numéro spécial d'"Études du XVIIIe siècle", XXXVIII, 2010, (p. 213–223)
References
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French geographers
1777 births
Scientists from Nantes
1855 deaths