caption serviceyears branch commands death_date death_place birth_place allegiance awards honorific_suffix battles birth_date nickname placeofburial rank image article_title name
miniature portrait of fleuriot de langle 1758 -- 1787 french royal navy '' experiment '' '' astrée '' '' astrolabe '' 11 december 1787 tutuila kerlouët castle kingdom of france knight the cincinnati of the order of saint louis society of vicomte de langle hudson bay expedition 01 august 1744 fleuriot de langle choir of saint-louis chruch , brest rear-admiral fleuriot.jpg paul antoine fleuriot de langle
 paul antoine fleuriot
paul antoine fleuriot de langle

paul antoine fleuriot de langle -lrb- 1 august 1744 , château de kerlouët at quemper-guézennec , côtes-d'armor -- 11 december 1787 , maouna , samoa -rrb- was a french vicomte , académicien de marine , naval commander and explorer .
he was second in command of the la pérouse expedition , which departed france on 1 august 1785 and was eventually lost in the pacific .
fleuriot de langle died in an encounter with natives in what is now american samoa before the expedition was lost ; his remains were returned to france , and were buried in the choir of the church of saint-louis at brest .
