Associations, museums and memorials:
FRANCE - Musée de la Marine
Musée National de la Marine (Paris & Brest)
http://www.musee-marine.fr/
Search the collections online:
http://mnm.webmuseo.com/ws/musee-national-marine/app/collection
The museum in Paris is closed until 2021.for refurbishment. The museum in Brest (in the historic château) currently has one room dedicated to La Pérouse, which contains a copy of the bust by François Rude, various objects from the shipwrecks and a video of the excavations organised by the Association Salomon.
FRANCE - Albi
L' Association Lapérouse Albi France
https://www.laperouse-france.fr/
Musée Lapérouse
http://www.mairie-albi.fr/le-mus%C3%A9e-lap%C3%A9rouse
Linternaute.com: musées: Albi Musée Lapérouse.
http://www.linternaute.com/musee/7155/musee-laperouse//
NEW CALEDONIA - Nouméa
Association Salomon
http://museemaritime.nc/salomon/
Association created by the late Alain Conan in 1981. Details of the various archaeological investigations, plus news of current activities. It offers the option of an English version, but I haven't made it work so far.
Musée maritime de Nouvelle-Calédonie
http://museemaritime.nc/musee/presentation
The New Caledonia Martime History museum, opened in 1999 and entirely renovated in 2012, now houses the majority of artefacts from the excavations. Website includes photos of the La Pérouse exhibits as they are displayed in the museum, plus a virtual tour . [Google streetview will also land you inside the museum] .
Collection La Pérouse
https://www.collection-laperouse.fr/en
Website providing a comprehensive listing of finds from the shipwreck sites. Themed listings in English; searchable catalogue in French only. Some 4,600 objects. Detailed and beautifully illustrated historical section, covering the voyage, its various stages, the shipwreck and the subsequent search for the lost expedition.
BOTANY BAY
La Perouse Museum & Headland, Sydney
https://laperouseheadland.com
Museum:
Page detailing the Museum collection
https://laperouseheadland.com/about/stakeholders/friends-of-the-laperouse-museum/museum/museum-collection/
e-hive La Perouse Museum catalogue
https://ehive.com/collections/3918/la-perouse-museum
The La Perouse Museum & Headland Trust manages the museum, the Laperouse and Receveur monuments and surrounding space which is part of the Kamay Botany Bay National Park. The Museum, which opened in 1988, is housed in the former Cable Station building.
The website is one of the best English-language La Pérouse resources, by no means no means confined the expedition's sojourn in Sydney. There are details of New World La Pérouse scholarship with links to relevant works and a blog of current news from around the world.
Memorials:
Lapérouse aujourd'hui: les lieux commémoratifs: video created by students in Albi.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BMG1neOfJ8Q
Brest
The resting-place of the unknown mariner from Vanikoro, in the grounds of the château de Brest; the vault is marked by a rose des vents, built from local stones.
Alain Boulaire, " L’inhumation à Brest de l’inconnu de Vanikoro", La Revue Maritime no. 492
http://www.ifmer.org/assets/documents/files/revues_maritime/492/8Linhumation-a-Brest-de-linconnu-de-Vanikoro.pdf
Cape Soya, Hokkaido
Monument on Cap Soya, Hokkaido, facing La Pérouse Strait. erected in 2007 through the joint initiative the Association Lapérouse Albi-France and the city of Wakkanaï.
Françoise Massard, "Un monument à la mémoire de La Pérouse au Cap Soya (Hokkaido)", on the websiteCargos-paquebots.net
http://www.cargos-paquebots.net/Navires_et_Histoire/LaPerouse/index.htm
Some books:
In English:
Sir Ernest Scott, Laperouse (1912)
https://www.gutenberg.org/files/4222/4222-h/4222-h.htm
John Robson, A Short Biography of Jean-François de Galaup de La Pérouse, 1741-1788 (last updated 2005)
https://web.archive.org/web/20081209024625/http://pages.quicksilver.net.nz:80/jcr/~lap2#Preamble
John Dunmore, When Fate beckons: The life of Jean-François de Lapérouse (2008)
University of Alaska Press. 292 pages. £18.76. e-book: £6.99 from Google.
Biography by the New Zealand academic and editor of the Voyages.
Preview on Google Books:
https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=ZD-5Du4OKxwC
In French:
J.P.Faivre, La tragique expedition d Lapérouse et Langle (1954) http://afdl.free.fr/
Catherine Gaziello, L'expédition de Lapérouse : 1785-1788 : réplique française aux voyages de Cook (1984)
The most comprehensive, archive-based study. Still often cited.
15% available on Gallica: including the bibliography.
http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k33237948
Yves Jacob L’énigme Lapérouse (2000).
Taillandier. 296 pages.
Pierre Bérard, Le voyage de La Pérouse : Itinéraire et aspects singuliers (2010)
Edition Un Autre Reg'Art. 175 pages. OOP.
Small extract on Google Books
https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=cLA8LVRqMC0C
By the former president of the Association Lapérouse Albi.
This is definitely the book for you, if you want grown-up information on the specifications of the ships, the technical aspects of navigation, the cartography and scientific observations. With good maps, and illustrations by the military artist Jean Bellis.
François Bellec, Les Esprits de Vanikoro: Le mystère Lapérouse (2006)
Gallimard. Album, 256 pages.OOP.
Illustrated account of the 2005 expedition aboard the Jacques Cartier with parallels to the original voyage.
http://www.gallimard-loisirs.fr/GuidesGallimardLoisirs/actus/esprits_vanikoro.jsp
John Pendray, Sur les traces de La Pérouse. Carnets d'expédition à Vanikoro (2006)
Editions Glénat. 110 pages. OOP.
Sketchbooks and watercolours by John Pendray, the official painter for the French Navy, who accompanied the 2006 expedition.
Association Salomon, Le Mystère Lapérouse, ou le Rêve inachevé d'un roi (2008)
Editions de Conti. 399 pages. OOP.
The book published to accompany the 2008 exhibition. I managed to find a copy on ebay for under £20. All you need to know, plus gorgeous illustrations on shiny paper!
Anne Pons, Lapérouse (2010)
Gallimard/ Mass Market Paperback. 302 pages.
Volume in the Folio Biographie series.
The most widely available biography.
Jean Guillou, La Pérouse...Et après: Dernières nouvelles du mystère de l'Astrobale (2011)
Harmattan, 144 pages
Preview on Amazon and on Google Books
https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=K64uyRUHCYoC
Chapters on the Laborde brothers, Lengle, the early voyages in search of the expedition, the supposed ancestors of Simon Lavo.
Jean-Christophe Galipaud & Valérie Jauneau, Au-delà d’un naufrage. Les survivants de l’expédition Lapérouse (2012)
Editions Errance.
The archaeological evidence from Vanikoro.
Although the book adds more detail, but the ultimate fate of the survivors remains a mystery.
Summary / review: https://journals.openedition.org/jso/7311
Claude Pisano & Joël Deville, Paul Antoine Fleuriot de Langle : second de l'expédition La Pérouse, commandant de l'Astrolabe, l'oublié de l'histoire (2012)
Editions Serre 160 pages.
Dominique Le Brun (ed.) La malédiction Lapérouse (2012)
Omnibus. Histoire 881 pages.
This is an edition of the Voyages of LP, plus various other documents. You can read the introduction on Google Books preview:
https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=ZuBoLGIVPagC
Gérard Piouffre, Lapérouse: la voyage sans retour (2016)
Vuibert. 240 pages.
Amazon Kindle preview:
https://www.amazon.fr/Lap%C3%A9rouse-G%C3%A9rard-Piouffre/dp/2311101366
This looks a clear and well-documented account; includes all the new material from the shipwrecks. I'm watching out for a cheap copy
Websites:
La Pérouse, website by Patrick Michel
http://laperouse.pagesperso-orange.fr/
"Les marins célèbres" on Netmarine.net [Entries for La Pérouse, D'Entrecasteaux and Dumont d'Urville]
http://www.netmarine.net/tradi/celebres/index.htm
Musée de la Marine, "Un voyage de découvertes au siècle des Lumières" [pdf]
Analysis and useful selection from the documents.
http://www.musee-marine.fr/content/un-voyage-de-decouvertes-au-siecle-des-lumieres-secondaire
Musée de la Marine, Virtual voyage [Created for the 2008 exhibition]
http://www.musee-marine.fr/programmes_multimedia/laperouse/
Robert Dumas, "Le voyage de Lapérouse" - Académie des Sciences et Lettres de Montpellier, 2009
http://www.ac-sciences-lettres-montpellier.fr/academie_edition/fichiers_conf/DUMAS2009.pdf
Europe 1 Radio: "La malédiction Lapérouse" Au coeur de l'histoire, broadcast 20/08/2013
Franck Ferrand's guests were Jean-Christophe Galipaud, archaeologist in charge of the excavations on Vanikoro, and Dominique Le Brun editor of the collection La malédiction Lapérouse (2012).
http://www.europe1.fr/mediacenter/emissions/au-coeur-de-l-histoire/sons/l-integrale-la-malediction-laperouse-1614637
Listed on Wikipédie:
https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liste_des_membres_de_l%27exp%C3%A9dition_de_La_P%C3%A9rouse
Genealogical project by the Centre Généalogique du Finistère
https://cgf-bzh.fr/project/operation-la-perouse/
Fleuriot de Langle
Philippe Henwood, "Fleuriot de Langle et l'expédition de Lapérouse", Dix-huitième Siècle, no.19, 1987, p. 245-262.
www.persee.fr/doc/dhs_0070-6760_1987_num_19_1_1650
Monti
Alain Monnié, Un Monti compagnon de La Pérouse
Père Receveur
F.R.L. Carleton,"An eighteenth century Conventual Franciscan naturalist on the Lapérouse expedition: : Père Laurent Receveur (1757-1788)." The Great Circle 1993, 15(1): p.18-29 [available on JStor].
http://www.jstor.org/stable/41562841.
Simon Lavo
Alain Denizet "Le fabuleux destin de Simon Lavo, chirurgien major de Lapérouse" Histoire-Généalogie, 17.09.2009
https://www.histoire-genealogie.com/Le-fabuleux-destin-de-Simon-Lavo?lang=fr
Lepaute-Dagelet
Ivan Barko, "Lepaute-Dagelet at Botany Bay and his encounter-with William Dawes" (2010)
https://www.isfar.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/43_IVAN-BARKO-Lepaute-Dagelet-at-Botany-Bay-and-his-Encounter-with-William-Dawes.pdf
Shipwreck and archaeology of Vanikoro:
Musée National de la Marine (Paris & Brest)
http://www.musee-marine.fr/
Search the collections online:
http://mnm.webmuseo.com/ws/musee-national-marine/app/collection
The museum in Paris is closed until 2021.for refurbishment. The museum in Brest (in the historic château) currently has one room dedicated to La Pérouse, which contains a copy of the bust by François Rude, various objects from the shipwrecks and a video of the excavations organised by the Association Salomon.
FRANCE - Albihttps://www.laperouse-france.fr/
Musée Lapérouse
http://www.mairie-albi.fr/le-mus%C3%A9e-lap%C3%A9rouse
Linternaute.com: musées: Albi Musée Lapérouse.
http://www.linternaute.com/musee/7155/musee-laperouse//
NEW CALEDONIA - Nouméa
Association Salomon
http://museemaritime.nc/salomon/
Association created by the late Alain Conan in 1981. Details of the various archaeological investigations, plus news of current activities. It offers the option of an English version, but I haven't made it work so far.
Musée maritime de Nouvelle-Calédonie
http://museemaritime.nc/musee/presentation
The New Caledonia Martime History museum, opened in 1999 and entirely renovated in 2012, now houses the majority of artefacts from the excavations. Website includes photos of the La Pérouse exhibits as they are displayed in the museum, plus a virtual tour . [Google streetview will also land you inside the museum] .
https://www.collection-laperouse.fr/en
Website providing a comprehensive listing of finds from the shipwreck sites. Themed listings in English; searchable catalogue in French only. Some 4,600 objects. Detailed and beautifully illustrated historical section, covering the voyage, its various stages, the shipwreck and the subsequent search for the lost expedition.
BOTANY BAY
La Perouse Museum & Headland, Sydney
https://laperouseheadland.com
Page detailing the Museum collection
https://laperouseheadland.com/about/stakeholders/friends-of-the-laperouse-museum/museum/museum-collection/
e-hive La Perouse Museum catalogue
https://ehive.com/collections/3918/la-perouse-museum
The La Perouse Museum & Headland Trust manages the museum, the Laperouse and Receveur monuments and surrounding space which is part of the Kamay Botany Bay National Park. The Museum, which opened in 1988, is housed in the former Cable Station building.
The website is one of the best English-language La Pérouse resources, by no means no means confined the expedition's sojourn in Sydney. There are details of New World La Pérouse scholarship with links to relevant works and a blog of current news from around the world.
Lapérouse aujourd'hui: les lieux commémoratifs: video created by students in Albi.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BMG1neOfJ8Q
Brest
The resting-place of the unknown mariner from Vanikoro, in the grounds of the château de Brest; the vault is marked by a rose des vents, built from local stones.
Alain Boulaire, " L’inhumation à Brest de l’inconnu de Vanikoro", La Revue Maritime no. 492
http://www.ifmer.org/assets/documents/files/revues_maritime/492/8Linhumation-a-Brest-de-linconnu-de-Vanikoro.pdf
Cape Soya, Hokkaido
Monument on Cap Soya, Hokkaido, facing La Pérouse Strait. erected in 2007 through the joint initiative the Association Lapérouse Albi-France and the city of Wakkanaï.
Françoise Massard, "Un monument à la mémoire de La Pérouse au Cap Soya (Hokkaido)", on the websiteCargos-paquebots.net
http://www.cargos-paquebots.net/Navires_et_Histoire/LaPerouse/index.htm
Some books:
In English:
Sir Ernest Scott, Laperouse (1912)
https://www.gutenberg.org/files/4222/4222-h/4222-h.htm
John Robson, A Short Biography of Jean-François de Galaup de La Pérouse, 1741-1788 (last updated 2005)
https://web.archive.org/web/20081209024625/http://pages.quicksilver.net.nz:80/jcr/~lap2#Preamble
John Dunmore, When Fate beckons: The life of Jean-François de Lapérouse (2008)University of Alaska Press. 292 pages. £18.76. e-book: £6.99 from Google.
Biography by the New Zealand academic and editor of the Voyages.
Preview on Google Books:
https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=ZD-5Du4OKxwC
Review article:
https://www.ufv.ca/jhb/Volume_5/Volume_5_Pritchard.pdf In French:
J.P.Faivre, La tragique expedition d Lapérouse et Langle (1954) http://afdl.free.fr/
Catherine Gaziello, L'expédition de Lapérouse : 1785-1788 : réplique française aux voyages de Cook (1984)
The most comprehensive, archive-based study. Still often cited.
15% available on Gallica: including the bibliography.
http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k33237948
François Bellec, La généreuse et tragique expédition Lapérouse (1985)
Ouest-France. 267 pages.
By the former director of the Musée de la Marine from 1980 to 1997, writer and maritime artist. Also author of a novel based on the expedition.
Yves Jacob L’énigme Lapérouse (2000).
Taillandier. 296 pages.
Pierre Bérard, Le voyage de La Pérouse : Itinéraire et aspects singuliers (2010)Edition Un Autre Reg'Art. 175 pages. OOP.
Small extract on Google Books
https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=cLA8LVRqMC0C
By the former president of the Association Lapérouse Albi.
This is definitely the book for you, if you want grown-up information on the specifications of the ships, the technical aspects of navigation, the cartography and scientific observations. With good maps, and illustrations by the military artist Jean Bellis.
François Bellec, Les Esprits de Vanikoro: Le mystère Lapérouse (2006) Gallimard. Album, 256 pages.OOP.
Illustrated account of the 2005 expedition aboard the Jacques Cartier with parallels to the original voyage.
http://www.gallimard-loisirs.fr/GuidesGallimardLoisirs/actus/esprits_vanikoro.jsp
John Pendray, Sur les traces de La Pérouse. Carnets d'expédition à Vanikoro (2006)
Editions Glénat. 110 pages. OOP.
Sketchbooks and watercolours by John Pendray, the official painter for the French Navy, who accompanied the 2006 expedition.
Association Salomon, Le Mystère Lapérouse, ou le Rêve inachevé d'un roi (2008)
Editions de Conti. 399 pages. OOP.
The book published to accompany the 2008 exhibition. I managed to find a copy on ebay for under £20. All you need to know, plus gorgeous illustrations on shiny paper!
Anne Pons, Lapérouse (2010)Gallimard/ Mass Market Paperback. 302 pages.
Volume in the Folio Biographie series.
The most widely available biography.
Harmattan, 144 pages
Preview on Amazon and on Google Books
https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=K64uyRUHCYoC
Chapters on the Laborde brothers, Lengle, the early voyages in search of the expedition, the supposed ancestors of Simon Lavo.
Jean-Christophe Galipaud & Valérie Jauneau, Au-delà d’un naufrage. Les survivants de l’expédition Lapérouse (2012)Editions Errance.
The archaeological evidence from Vanikoro.
Although the book adds more detail, but the ultimate fate of the survivors remains a mystery.
Summary / review: https://journals.openedition.org/jso/7311
Claude Pisano & Joël Deville, Paul Antoine Fleuriot de Langle : second de l'expédition La Pérouse, commandant de l'Astrolabe, l'oublié de l'histoire (2012)
Editions Serre 160 pages.
Dominique Le Brun (ed.) La malédiction Lapérouse (2012)
Omnibus. Histoire 881 pages.
This is an edition of the Voyages of LP, plus various other documents. You can read the introduction on Google Books preview:
https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=ZuBoLGIVPagC
Gérard Piouffre, Lapérouse: la voyage sans retour (2016)Vuibert. 240 pages.
Amazon Kindle preview:
https://www.amazon.fr/Lap%C3%A9rouse-G%C3%A9rard-Piouffre/dp/2311101366
This looks a clear and well-documented account; includes all the new material from the shipwrecks. I'm watching out for a cheap copy
Websites:
La Pérouse, website by Patrick Michel
http://laperouse.pagesperso-orange.fr/
"Les marins célèbres" on Netmarine.net [Entries for La Pérouse, D'Entrecasteaux and Dumont d'Urville]
http://www.netmarine.net/tradi/celebres/index.htm
Musée de la Marine, "Un voyage de découvertes au siècle des Lumières" [pdf]
Analysis and useful selection from the documents.
http://www.musee-marine.fr/content/un-voyage-de-decouvertes-au-siecle-des-lumieres-secondaire
Musée de la Marine, Virtual voyage [Created for the 2008 exhibition]
http://www.musee-marine.fr/programmes_multimedia/laperouse/
Robert Dumas, "Le voyage de Lapérouse" - Académie des Sciences et Lettres de Montpellier, 2009
http://www.ac-sciences-lettres-montpellier.fr/academie_edition/fichiers_conf/DUMAS2009.pdf
Europe 1 Radio: "La malédiction Lapérouse" Au coeur de l'histoire, broadcast 20/08/2013
Franck Ferrand's guests were Jean-Christophe Galipaud, archaeologist in charge of the excavations on Vanikoro, and Dominique Le Brun editor of the collection La malédiction Lapérouse (2012).
http://www.europe1.fr/mediacenter/emissions/au-coeur-de-l-histoire/sons/l-integrale-la-malediction-laperouse-1614637
Marthe Melguen, "French voyages of exploration and science in the Age of Enlightenment: an ocean of discovery throughout the Pacific Ocean"
in Proceedings of the 30th Annual Conference of the IAMSLIC (2004) [open access]
http://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/2004/acte-358.pdf
Tessa Morris-Suzuki, "The telescope and the tinderbox: rediscovering La Pérouse in the North Pacific", East Asian History 39 (2014) [online]
http://www.eastasianhistory.org/39/Morris-Suzuki
Members of the expedition:in Proceedings of the 30th Annual Conference of the IAMSLIC (2004) [open access]
http://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/2004/acte-358.pdf
Tessa Morris-Suzuki, "The telescope and the tinderbox: rediscovering La Pérouse in the North Pacific", East Asian History 39 (2014) [online]
http://www.eastasianhistory.org/39/Morris-Suzuki
Listed on Wikipédie:
https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liste_des_membres_de_l%27exp%C3%A9dition_de_La_P%C3%A9rouse
Genealogical project by the Centre Généalogique du Finistère
https://cgf-bzh.fr/project/operation-la-perouse/
Fleuriot de Langle
Philippe Henwood, "Fleuriot de Langle et l'expédition de Lapérouse", Dix-huitième Siècle, no.19, 1987, p. 245-262.
www.persee.fr/doc/dhs_0070-6760_1987_num_19_1_1650
Monti
Alain Monnié, Un Monti compagnon de La Pérouse
F.R.L. Carleton,"An eighteenth century Conventual Franciscan naturalist on the Lapérouse expedition: : Père Laurent Receveur (1757-1788)." The Great Circle 1993, 15(1): p.18-29 [available on JStor].
http://www.jstor.org/stable/41562841.
Simon Lavo
Alain Denizet "Le fabuleux destin de Simon Lavo, chirurgien major de Lapérouse" Histoire-Généalogie, 17.09.2009
https://www.histoire-genealogie.com/Le-fabuleux-destin-de-Simon-Lavo?lang=fr
Lepaute-Dagelet
Ivan Barko, "Lepaute-Dagelet at Botany Bay and his encounter-with William Dawes" (2010)
https://www.isfar.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/43_IVAN-BARKO-Lepaute-Dagelet-at-Botany-Bay-and-his-Encounter-with-William-Dawes.pdf
Shipwreck and archaeology of Vanikoro:
Wikipédie, "Expéditions menées sur les traces de La Pérouse"
https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exp%C3%A9ditions_men%C3%A9es_sur_les_traces_de_La_P%C3%A9rouse
Vincent Groizeleau, "La France lance une ultime expédition pour percer le mystère Lapérouse", Mer et Marine, report of 19.03.2008
https://www.meretmarine.com/fr/content/la-france-lance-une-ultime-expedition-pour-percer-le-mystere-laperouse
https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exp%C3%A9ditions_men%C3%A9es_sur_les_traces_de_La_P%C3%A9rouse
TV documentaries by Yves Bourgeois:
Thalassa: "L'expédition Lapérouse : Au-delà d’un naufrage". Published on YouTube, 30.06.17.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MTmTgU0LMAs
Thalassa: "L'expédition Lapérouse : Au-delà d’un naufrage". Published on YouTube, 30.06.17.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MTmTgU0LMAs
https://www.meretmarine.com/fr/content/la-france-lance-une-ultime-expedition-pour-percer-le-mystere-laperouse
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