page_title: Jean-Baptiste Cécille
section_title: Legacy
hierarchical_section_title: Jean-Baptiste Cécille / Legacy
caption_attribution_description: Croiseur protégé Amiral Cécille_1888
context_page_description: Jean-Baptiste Thomas Médée Cécille was a French Admiral and politician who played an important role in the French intervention of Vietnam. He also circumnavigated the globe.
context_section_description: The Ōsumi Islands Group in southern Japan, which was explored by Cécille in 1846, was named "Cécille archipelago" ("Archipel Cécille") on French charts.
  A peak on the Île de la Possession in the Crozet Islands, where he once landed, was named "Mont Cécille" (46°23'00" S, 51°41'00" E) after him in the 1960s.
  The French cruiser Amiral Cécille (1888-scrapped 1919) was named in his honour.
caption: The 1888 French cruiser Amiral Cécille.
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