Engraving depicting the arrival of Bougainville in Tahiti in April 1768 • WIKIMEDIACOMMONS Louis-Antoine de Bougainville, youngest son of a notary from Châtelet in Paris, was already 27 years old when he boarded a long-distance ship for the first time. Indeed, he is making his first crossing of
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