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See also:FREYCINET, See also:- LOUIS
- LOUIS (804–876)
- LOUIS (893–911)
- LOUIS, JOSEPH DOMINIQUE, BARON (1755-1837)
- LOUIS, or LEWIS (from the Frankish Chlodowich, Chlodwig, Latinized as Chlodowius, Lodhuwicus, Lodhuvicus, whence-in the Strassburg oath of 842-0. Fr. Lodhuwigs, then Chlovis, Loys and later Louis, whence Span. Luiz and—through the Angevin kings—Hungarian
LOUIS See also:CLAUDE DESAULSES DE (1779-1842) , See also:French navigator, was See also:born at Montelimart, Dr6me, on the 7th of See also:August 1779. In 1793 he entered the French See also:navy. After taking See also:part in several engagements against the See also:British, he joined in 1800, along with his See also:brother Louis See also:Henri Freycinet (1777-184o), who afterwards See also:rose to the See also:rank of See also:admiral, the expedition sent out under See also:Captain Baudin in the " Naturaliste " and " Geographe " to explore the See also:south and south-See also:west coasts of See also:Australia. Much of the ground already gone over by See also:Flinders was revisited, and new names imposed by this expedition, which claimed See also:credit for discoveries really made by the See also:English navigator. An inlet on the See also:coast of West Australia, in 26° S., is called Freycinet See also:Estuary; and a cape near the extreme south-west of the same coast also bears the explorer's name. In 1805 he returned to See also:Paris, and was entrusted by the See also:government with the See also:work of preparing the maps and plans of the expedition; he also completed the narrative, and the whole work appeared under the See also:title of Voyage de decouvertes aux terres australes (Paris, 1807-1816). In 1817 he commanded the " Uranie," in which See also:Arago and others went to Rio de Janeiro, to take a See also:series of pendulum measurements. This was only part of a larger See also:- SCHEME (Lat. schema, Gr. oxfjya, figure, form, from the root axe, seen in exeiv, to have, hold, to be of such shape, form, &c.)
scheme for obtaining observations, not only in See also:geography and See also:ethnology, but in See also:astronomy, terrestrial See also:magnetism, and See also:meteorology, and for the collection of specimens in natural See also:history. On this expedition the hydrographic operations were conducted by Louis Isidore Duperry (1786-1865) who in 1822 was appointed to the command of the " Coquille," and during the next three years carried out scientific explorations in the See also:southern Pacific and along the coast of South See also:America. For three years Freycinet cruised about, visiting Australia, the Marianne, See also:Sandwich, and other Pacific islands, South America, and other places, and, notwithstanding the loss of the "Uranie " on the See also:Falkland Islands during the return voyage, returned to See also:France with See also:fine collections in all departments of natural history, and with voluminous notes and drawings which See also:form an important contribution to a knowledge of the countries visited. The results of this voyage were published under Freycinet's super-See also:vision, with the title of Voyage autour du monde sur See also:les corvettes " l' Uranie " et " la Physicienne " in 1824-1844, in 13 See also:quarto volumes and 4 See also:folio volumes of fine plates and maps. Freycinet was admitted into the See also:Academy of Sciences in 1825, and was one
of the founders of the Paris See also:Geographical Society. He died at Freycinet, See also:Drome, on the 18th of August 1842.
End of Article: FREYCINET, LOUIS CLAUDE DESAULSES DE (1779-1842)
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