In the history of exploration, Charles Pierre Claret de Fleurieu is one of the names that keeps returning.
The record lists Charles Pierre Claret de Fleurieu as French explorer and politician (1738–1810).
Charles Pierre Claret de Fleurieu was born at Lyon in 1738. His recorded nationality is France.
Seventeenth-century voyaging was commercial and Dutch-led, mapping coastlines for companies rather than kings.
He is recorded as explorer, diplomat and politician.
Distance was the hardest problem of the pre-modern world, and it was solved by people willing to risk it.
Recognition followed: Grand Officer of the Legion of Honour and Knight of the Royal and Military Order of Saint Louis.
Charles Pierre Claret de Fleurieu died in 1810, aged 72. The routes and charts outlived the journey, which is how exploration is actually measured.
Achievements
- Grand Officer of the Legion of Honour
- Knight of the Royal and Military Order of Saint Louis
- Recorded as explorer, diplomat and politician
