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Rose de Freycinet journal written while on the Uranie voyage, 1817-1820, together with a transcripti...
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Rose de Freycinet journal written while on the Uranie voyage, 1817-1820, together with a transcription of her letters to her mother, 1817-1819, transcribed before 1842
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1DrmrKP9
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Rose de Freycinet journal written while on the Uranie voyage, 1817-1820, together with a transcription of her letters to her mother, 1817-1819, transcribed before 1842
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Rose de Freycinet journal written while on the Uranie voyage, 1817-1820, together with a transcription of her letters to her mother, 1817-1819, transcribed before 1842
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Date
1817-1820, and before 1842
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Language
French
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Out of copyright
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— SCOPE AND CONTENTS
Contents
Item 01: Journal particulier de Rose pour Caroline, September 1817-October 1820
Item 02: Lettres de Mme. Louis de Freycinet écrites pendant le voyage autour du Monde de la Corvette l'Uranie, 1817-1819, transcribed and edited by Louis-Claude de Saulces de Freycinet, after 1820 and before 1842
Rose’s journal has been known since the 192...
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Rose de Freycinet journal written while on the Uranie voyage, 1817-1820, together with a transcription of her letters to her mother, 1817-1819, transcribed before 1842
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Published information
The journal and some of the letters have been translated into English in: Freycinet, Rose Marie de & Rivière, Marc, 1947- & National Library of Australia 2003, A woman of courage : the journal of Rose de Freycinet on her voyage around the world 1817-1820, National Library of Australia, Canberra
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Source
Purchased from Hordern House, August 2013 and January 2014
Administrative / Biographical history
In 1817 Louis de Freycinet, an aristocratic naval officer and veteran of the Baudin expedition which circumnavigated Australia between 1801 and 1803, was given command of a Pacific scientific and exploring expedition. As captain of the Uranie, Freycinet secretly planned to take with him his 21 year old wife, Rose, a well educated and cultured woman...
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1DrmrKP9
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1060974
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