Bougainville, Louis Antoine de, a French navigator, born in Paris; voyaged round the world, which occupied him two years and a half; his “Travels” had a remarkably stimulating effect on the imaginations of the “philosophies,” as described by him in “Un Voyage autour du Monde” (1729‒1811).
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
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