In the history of exploration, Jean-Baptiste Charles Bouvet de Lozier is one of the names that keeps returning.
The record lists Jean-Baptiste Charles Bouvet de Lozier as French explorer.
Jean-Baptiste Charles Bouvet de Lozier was born at Pleudihen-sur-Rance in 1705. His recorded nationality is Kingdom of France.
Seventeenth-century voyaging was commercial and Dutch-led, mapping coastlines for companies rather than kings.
He is recorded as explorer, navigator and colonial administrator.
Distance was the hardest problem of the pre-modern world, and it was solved by people willing to risk it.
Recognition followed: Knight of the Royal and Military Order of Saint Louis.
Jean-Baptiste Charles Bouvet de Lozier died in 1786, aged 81. The routes and charts outlived the journey, which is how exploration is actually measured.
Achievements
- Knight of the Royal and Military Order of Saint Louis
- Recorded as explorer, navigator and colonial administrator
