France Australe
Subtitle: the French search for the Southland and subsequent explorations and plans to found a penal colony and strategic base in south western Australia 1503-1826
By: by Leslie R. Marchant.
Publisher: Scott Four Colour Print
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Perth, W.A
Language: eng
Number of pages: 384
Subjects: Western Australia -- Discovery and exploration -- French.; Western Australia -- Discovery and exploration.
Notes: Includes bibliography and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: PART I; title: The Ancient Regime and western Australia; title: Chapter 1: France and the early search for a route to the Indies down to Paulmier de Gonneville's voyage from 1503 to 1505.; title: Chapter 2: French exploration, intellectual curiosity and utopian literature about Australia from Gonneville's return in 1505 down to Bouvet de Lozier's exploration in 1740.; title: Chapter 3: Marion Dufresne's and Kerguelen - Tremarec's search for Gonneville Land, and St. Allouarn's survey of south western Australia in 1772.; title: PART II; title: Revolutionary France and western Australia; title: Chapter 4: D'Entrecasteaux's survey of the south coast of western Australia in 1792.; title: Chapter 5: Baudin and western Australia. Section 1: Origins of the mission and the survey of the south west coast by Hamelin and Baudin in 1801.; title: Chapter 6: Baudin and western Australia. Section 2: Baudin and Hamelin's exploration of the Swan River and Shark Bay, and Baudin and Freycinet's exploration of King George Sound, Bunbury and Shark Bay in 1801 and 1803.; title: PART III; title: Restoration France and western Australia; title: Chapter 7: Freycinet's further exploration of Shark Bay in 1801.; title: Chapter 8: The transportation Committee of 1819 and Blosseville's plan for a penal colony in south western Australia from 1819 to 1826.; title: Chapter 9: The French failure to settle western Australia and the shift of interest to New Zealand: the expeditions of Duperry, Bougainville and D'Urville between 1822 and 1826..