page_title: Rose de Freycinet
section_title: Marriage to de Freycinet
hierarchical_section_title: Rose de Freycinet / Biography / Marriage to de Freycinet
caption_attribution_description: French explorer, navigator, geologist and geographer Louis Claude de Saulces de Freycinet (1779-1842). From an engraving of the original portrait in the possession of Baron Claude de Freycinet.
context_page_description: Rose de Freycinet, born Rose Pinon, was a Frenchwoman who, in the company of her husband, Louis de Freycinet, sailed around the world between 1817 and 1820 on a French scientific expedition on a military ship, initially disguised as a man. While not the first woman to circumnavigate the world, she was the first to record her experiences, in a diary. Being not intended for publication and being both frank and personal musings about people, places and events, her writings represent an important anthropological resource.
context_section_description: At age 19, Rose married 35-year-old Louis Claude de Saulces de Freycinet, a member of the French aristocracy. The difference in social class proved no impediment for a happy marriage; by all accounts, her in-laws loved and respected her, and throughout her life, Rose maintained an animated correspondence with her in-laws, wherever her travels took her.
   Over the course of her journey she also corresponded with her mother, Madame Pinon, whom she missed dearly, especially because her departure meant her mother was separated from all of her children.
caption: Louis de Freycinet.
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