Bougainville (English spelling) Bougainville, Louis-Antoine de

Japanese: ブーゲンビル(英語表記)Bougainville, Louis-Antoine de
Bougainville (English spelling) Bougainville, Louis-Antoine de
Born: November 11, 1729 in Paris
Died: August 31, 1811. French navigator and soldier. In 1756, he served as an aide-de-camp to the Marquis de Montcalm in New France (Canada) and fought against the British. He then joined the navy, and in 1764 established a colony in the Falkland Islands on his own for France. In 1766, he was ordered to circumnavigate the world, and set sail in December. He passed through the Strait of Magellan, entered the South Pacific, and visited Tahiti, Samoa, the New Hebrides, and other islands, before returning to the United States in March 1769. His account of the voyage was published as Voyage autour du monde (1771). He later participated in the American War of Independence, and in 1790 was appointed commander of the fleet at Brest. He became a senator and a count during the Napoleonic era. The island of Bougainville in the Solomon Islands, the strait of the same name in the New Hebrides, and the plant Bougainvillea are named after him.

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[生]1729.11.11. パリ
[没]1811.8.31. パリ
フランスの航海者,軍人。1756年モンカルム侯の副官としてヌーベル・フランス(カナダ)に出征,イギリス軍と戦った。その後海軍に入り,1764年フランスのために独力で,フォークランド諸島に植民地を建設。1766年から世界一周を命じられ,12月出帆。マゼラン海峡を経て南太平洋に入り,タヒチ,サモア,ニューヘブリディーズ諸島などを歴訪,1769年3月帰国。その記録は『世界周航記』Voyage autour du monde(1771)として出版された。その後アメリカ独立戦争に参加し,1790年ブレストの艦隊司令官に就任。ナポレオン時代元老院議員ならびに伯爵となった。ソロモン諸島のブーゲンビル島,ニューヘブリディーズ諸島の同名の海峡,およびオシロイバナ科の植物ブーゲンビレアは彼の名にちなむ。

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