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  • Geographe & Naturaliste
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  • Geographe (after November 1802)

Depart Le Havre, France19 October 1800

The citizens of Le Havre give Géographe and Naturaliste a rousing farewell. ‘May the memory that I keep of this moment apprise them of how moved I was by their expressions of friendship’ writes Baudin. Soon after, the ships are stopped in the English Channel by an English frigate checking passports.

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  • Nicolas Baudin on board Géographe
    Artist Charles-Alexandre Lesueur
    Muséum d’histoire naturelle, Le Havre—13019

  • View of the entrance of the port of Le Havre
    Artist Charles-Alexandre Lesueur
    Muséum d’histoire naturelle, Le Havre—36026

  • Le Havre—Wharf at Pilot’s Cove
    Artist Charles-Alexandre Lesueur
    Muséum d’histoire naturelle, Le Havre—36049

  • Jellyfish (unidentified)
    Artist Charles-Alexandre Lesueur
    Muséum d’histoire naturelle, Le Havre—70047

  • Blue sea slug—Glaucus atlanticus
    Artist Charles-Alexandre Lesueur
    Muséum d’histoire naturelle, Le Havre—72019

  • Pyrosome—Pyrosoma atlanticum
    Artist unknown
    Muséum d’histoire naturelle, Le Havre—75038

  • Frontispiece—Fair Copy of Baudin’s Sea Journal-Vol.1
    Archives nationales de France—sèrie Marine 5JJ35