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Jeanne Baret

1740 - 1807

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Jeanne Baret ([ʒan ba.ʁɛ]; 27 July 1740 – 5 August 1807) is recognised as the first woman to have completed a voyage of circumnavigation of the globe, which she did via maritime transport. A key part of her journey was as a member of Louis Antoine de Bougainville's expedition on the ships La Boudeuse and Étoile in 1766–1769. Jeanne Baret joined the expedition disguised as a man, calling herself Jean Baret. She enlisted as valet and assistant to the expedition's naturalist, Philibert Commerson, shortly before Bougainville's ships sailed from France. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Jeanne Baret is the 87th most popular explorer (down from 76th in 2019), the 1,072nd most popular biography from France (down from 946th in 2019) and the 8th most popular French Explorer.

Jeanne Baret was a French explorer and the first woman to circumnavigate the globe.

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Among EXPLORERS

Among explorers, Jeanne Baret ranks 87 out of 498. Before her are Richard Francis Burton, Stepan Makarov, Álvaro de Mendaña de Neira, Vicente Yáñez Pinzón, Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca, and Diego Columbus. After her are Willem Janszoon, Tristão da Cunha, Jean de Béthencourt, Sebastian Cabot, Pierre Savorgnan de Brazza, and William Parry.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1740, Jeanne Baret ranks 7. Before her are Marquis de Sade, Ivan VI of Russia, Isabelle de Charrière, Giovanni Paisiello, Empress Go-Sakuramachi, and Horace Bénédict de Saussure. After her are Johann van Beethoven, Carl Michael Bellman, Franz-Joseph Müller von Reichenstein, Bernard-René Jourdan de Launay, Louis-Sébastien Mercier, and John Sullivan. Among people deceased in 1807, Jeanne Baret ranks 5. Before her are Maria Theresa of Naples and Sicily, Angelica Kauffman, Jérôme Lalande, and Magtymguly Pyragy. After her are Henry Benedict Stuart, George Atwood, Osman Pazvantoğlu, Duchess Anna Amalia of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, Maria, Duchess of Gloucester and Edinburgh, John Newton, and Friedrich Melchior, Baron von Grimm.

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In France

Among people born in France, Jeanne Baret ranks 1,072 out of 6,770. Before her are Laurent Blanc (1965), Tetricus I (250), René Cassin (1887), Claude-Louis Navier (1785), Stéphanie de Beauharnais (1789), and Pierre-Jean de Béranger (1780). After her are Louisa Maria Stuart (1692), Clotilde of France (1759), Paul Painlevé (1863), Adélaïde of France (1732), Paul Sérusier (1864), and Jean-Pierre Jeunet (1953).

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Among EXPLORERS In France

Among explorers born in France, Jeanne Baret ranks 8. Before her are Jacques Cousteau (1910), Pytheas (-380), Louis Antoine de Bougainville (1729), Samuel de Champlain (1567), Jean-François de Galaup, comte de Lapérouse (1741), and Jules Dumont d'Urville (1790). After her are Jean de Béthencourt (1362), Charles Marie de La Condamine (1701), René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle (1643), Jean-Baptiste Charles Bouvet de Lozier (1705), Jean Chardin (1643), and Antoine Bruni d'Entrecasteaux (1737).

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