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In 1782, Lapérouse was ordered to undertake a secret mission, which he had helped prepare: to destroy, with a fleet of three ships under his command, the English forts of York and Prince of Wales in Hudson Bay, which protected fur trading posts. Lapérouse, commanding for the first time the vessel Le Sceptre, was accompanied […]

Jean-François de Galaup embarked in March 1757 on the Célèbre in the squadron commanded by Count Dubois de La Motte and sent to the rescue of Louisbourg, on Île Royale. He escaped the terrible epidemic that ravaged the ships and the city of Brest where he returned on November 12, 1757. On February 22, 1758,

Once his studies were completed, peace had returned to France, and jobs in the Navy were scarce. Lapérouse sailed the French Atlantic coast carrying timber between Bayonne and the shipyards of Rochefort and Brest, thus participating in the reconstruction of the French fleet after the war. In 1772, the Chevalier de Ternay was appointed Governor

Lapérouse was born under the name of Jean-François de Galaup, on August 23, 1741, at the Château du Gô, about four kilometers from the center of Albi, near Lescure d’Albigois. His father, Victor-Joseph de Galaup, was consul of the city of Albi, and came from a family that had become noble, with the title of

242 years ago, the frigate L’Hermione was launched and, in the following year (April 28, 1780), La Touche-Tréville, commanding L’Hermione, was able to lead the Marquis de Lafayette to Boston with the remarkable support of Lapérouse, commanding the Astrée. …. Three Bridges – Naval History :April 28, 1779: launch at Rochefort of the frigate l’Hermione,

« Comte Jean-François de Galaup de Lapérouse, I am sending you on a scientific expedition to the last ocean with unknown parts…» Louis XVI, king of France, asked Lapérouse to take care of his crews as well as the populations he would come into contact with, to facilitate the opening of trading posts for the