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La Pérouse
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synonyms: Jean-François de Galaup ???
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Definition:1. [1741 - 1788] a French explorer who fought in the 7 years war and the American Revolutionary War against Britain. in 1785 King Louis XVI commissioned him to lead a world expedition with scientific, economic, political, and geographic goals. Thankfully he sent his notes back with a British ship because he shipwrecked on Vanikoro Island (of the Solomon Islands) in the South Pacific. His fate was not discovered until 1826.Napoleon Bonaparte applied for the 1785 mission but was turned down. Imagine how history would have been different...2. a street in Paris that bears his name, just south of the Arc de Triomphe3. a restaurant, apparently originally on that street (according to Proust - see usage examples), now in the 6th arrondissement. The map below shows the route from the street (green) to the current location of the restaurant (red).
image: Public Domain,map: (from Rue La Pérouse (green) to the current location of restaurant Lapérouse (red).)by OpenStreetMap®, licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 license
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Those of Maouna especially are perhaps the most ferocious people to be met with in the South Sea. It was they who murdered Captain de Langle, the commander of the second ship under La Pérouse, the naturalist Laman, and fourteen persons from the crews of both ships, on their venturing ashore; although they had loaded the natives with presents.
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They began to make formal preparations for an attack, and we again had recourse to bayonets and lances to keep them at a distance. I confess that, at this moment, I had need of some self-command to overcome my inclination to revenge on the ferocious rabble the fate of La Pérouse's companions.
Otto von Kotzebue. A New Voyage Roud the World in the Years 1823, 24, 25, and 26. Vol. 1 (1830)
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He used to take her back as far as the door of her little house in the Rue La Pérouse, behind the Arc de Triomphe.
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he would go for luncheon to a restaurant not far off, to which he had been attracted, some time before, by the excellence of its cookery, but to which he now went only for one of those reasons, at once mystical and absurd, which people call ‘romantic’; because this restaurant (which, by the way, still exists) bore the same name as the street in which Odette lived: the Lapérouse.
Marcel Proust. In Search of Lost Time [volume 1] (1913)
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