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BAUDIN, NAPOLEON AND THE EXPLORATION OF AUSTRALIA

EMPIRES IN PERSPECTIVE

Series Editor: Durba Ghosh

Advisory Editor: Masaie Matsumura

TITLES IN THIS SERIES

1 Between Empire and Revolution: A Life of Sidney Bunting, 18731936
Allison Drew

2 A Wider Patriotism: Alfred Milner and the British Empire
J. Lee Thompson

3 Missionary Education and Empire in Late Colonial India, 18601920
Hayden J. A. Bellenoit

4 Transoceanic Radical, William Duane: National Identity and Empire, 17601835
Nigel Little

5 Natural Science and the Origins of the British Empire
Sarah Irving

6 Empire of Political Thought: Indigenous Australians and the Language of Colonial Government
Bruce Buchan

7 The English Empire in America, 16021658: Beyond Jamestown
L. H. Roper

8 India in the French Imagination: Peripheral Voices, 17541815
Kate Marsh

9 British Narratives of Exploration: Case Studies on the Self and Other
Frdric Regard (ed.)

10 Law and Imperialism: Criminality and Constitution in Colonial India and Victorian England
Preeti Nijhar

11 Slaveholders in Jamaica: Colonial Society and Culture during the Era of Abolition
Christer Petley

12 Australian Between Empires: The Life of Percy Spender
David Lowe

13 The Theatre of Empire: Frontier Performances in America, 17501860
Douglas S. Harvey

14 Anglo-Spanish Rivalry in Colonial South-East America, 16501725
Timothy Paul Grady

15 Royal Patronage, Power and Aesthetics in Princely India
Angma Dey Jhala

16 British Engineers and Africa, 18751914
Casper Andersen

17 Ireland and Empire, 16921770
Charles Ivar McGrath

18 Race and Identity in the Tasman World, 17691840
Rachel Standfield

19 The Quest for the Northwest Passage: Knowledge, Nation and Empire, 15761806
Frdric Regard (ed.)

20 Arctic Exploration in the Nineteenth Century: Discovering the Northwest Passage
Frdric Regard (ed.)

FORTHCOMING TITLES

Class and Colonialism in Antarctic Exploration, 17501920
Ben Maddison

Mercurino di Gattinara and the Creation of the Spanish Empire
Rebecca Ard Boone

Baudin, Napoleon and the Exploration of Australia

By
Nicole Starbuck

First published 2013 by Pickering & Chatto (Publishers) Limited

Published 2016 by Routledge
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Starbuck, Nicole, author.
Baudin, Napoleon and the exploration of Australia. (Empires in perspective) 1. Baudin, Nicolas, 17541803 2. Scientific expeditions Australia History 19th century. 3. French Australia Sydney (N.S.W.) History 19th century. 4. Australia Discovery and exploration French. 5. France History Consulate and First Empire, 17991815.
I. Title II. Series
919.4'042-dc23

ISBN-13: 978-1-84893-210-4 (hbk)

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Contents

This book has been produced with assistance from a number of individuals and institutions. It began as a doctoral dissertation funded by an Australian Research Council Discovery Project. Supplementary faculty grants and the P. W. Rice Travel Award offered by the University of Adelaide allowed me to conduct vital research and to attend conferences interstate and in France. I thank the librarians at the Bibliothque Centrale, Musum Nationale dHistoire Naturelle, Paris, and in particular, Gabrielle Baglione, curator of the Lesueur Collection at the Musum dHistoire Naturelle at Le Havre. I am also indebted to the National Library of Australia, which granted me a Norman McCann Summer Scholarship in 2007 my gratitude goes particularly to Margy Burn and the librarians of the manuscript and map collections. My thanks must also go to Valerie Sitters at the State Library of South Australia and to Jennifer Genion, research assistant for the Baudin Legacy Project.

For generously sharing their knowledge about science, animals and natural history with me during my doctoral research, I thank Stephanie Pfennigworth and Wolf Mayer, and for their encouragement, support and advice as I turned to the book, my deep thanks go to Claire Walker, David Lemmings, Lisa Mansfield, Vesna Drapac, Rachel Ankeny and Shino Konishi. I am profoundly grateful to Jean Fornasiero, John West-Sooby and Margaret Sankey for initially inviting me into the world of French exploration and for their dedicated supervision of my PhD project. Jean and John continue to discuss Baudin and his world with me and they have provided invaluable advice and reassurance, however, any faults in this book are entirely my own.

Finally, I owe the most special thanks to my sons James and Hamish and my husband Rob, whose love and patience have enabled me to bring this history to light.

Different versions of appear elsewhere as Nicolas Baudin. La relche Sydney et la deuxime campagne du Gographe, in M. Jangoux (ed.), Port par lair du temps: les voyages du capitaine Baudin, special number of tudes sur le 18me sicle, 38 (2010), pp. 13342, Neither Civilized nor Savage: The Aborigines of Colonial Port Jackson, through French Eyes, 1802, in A. Cook, N. Curthoys and S. Konishi (eds), Representing Humanity in the Age of Enlightenment (London: Pickering & Chatto, forthcoming, 2013) and The Colonial Field: Science, Sydney and the Baudin Expedition (1802), Explorations, 52 ( June 2012), pp. 335.

The ship, for the insider in all its spaces, in all its relationships, in all its theatre was always being remade, was always in process. Its story had not ended. The partial history men made of it was always creating something new.

G. Dening

It was early in the spring of 1800 that Nicolas Baudin, accompanied by a commission of the Institut Nationals most eminent savants, presented the First Consul with his proposal for a voyage to interest the whole of Europe. Indeed, it was determined that a maritime expedition would take place, but not in the form Baudin had proposed.

Following deliberation by the commission of the Institut, in collaboration with the Minister of Marine and the Colonies and with the formal approval of the First Consul, the voyage that was ultimately decided, the voyage that commenced from the docks at Le Havre, 18 October, little resembled that which had originally been proposed. It involved two ships instead of three but almost three times the number of naturalists and scientists Baudin had requested an unprecedented twenty-two and its scope was highly circumscribed: it would be a scientific voyage concentrated on the shores of Australia.

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