Louis Antoine de Bougainville, French admiral and explorer (died 1811)

Louis Antoine de Bougainville

French military officer and explorer (1729–1811)

Louis-Antoine, Comte de Bougainville was a French military officer and explorer. A contemporary of the British explorer James Cook, he served in the Seven Years' War and the American Revolutionary War. Bougainville later gained fame for his expeditions, including a…