Louis Antoine de Bougainville (1729-1811) was a French soldier and explorer. An accomplished scholar, he was also a man of action who fought in the Seven Years War, explored the Pacific Ocean, and was the first Frenchman to circumnavigate the world....

1729-1811 French Explorer Leader of the first French circumnavigation of the globe (1767-69), Louis Antoine de Bougainville explored the South Atlantic and Polynesia before reaching the Great Barrier Reef around Australia. He discovered a number of the...

Louis-Antoine de Bougainville Born November 11, 1729, Paris, France Died August 31, 1811, Paris. France Louis-Antoine de Bougainville, a French naval officer, led an expedition around the world in the late 1760s. It was the first time that a French ship...

Louis-Antoine, comte de Bougainville (November 12 1729 Paris - August 20 1811 Paris) was a French navigator and military...