Amédée-François Frézier, French mathematician, engineer, and explorer (born 1682)

Amédée-François Frézier

French military engineer and explorer (1682–1773)

Amédée-François Frézier was a French military engineer, mathematician, spy, and explorer who is best remembered for bringing back five specimens of Fragaria chiloensis, the beach strawberry, from an assignment in South America, thus introducing this New World fruit to the Old.…