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French and explorer
* 1779 – Louis de Freycinet, French explorer ( d. 1842 )
* 1541 – French explorer Jacques Cartier lands near Quebec City in his third voyage to Canada.
* 1741 – Jean-François de Galaup, comte de La Pérouse, French navy officer and explorer ( d. 1788 )
* Alexandra David-Néel ( 1868 – 1969 ), French explorer and spiritualist
* Antoine Laumet de La Mothe, sieur de Cadillac, French explorer, founder of Detroit
However, it was French explorer Jacques Cartier who made the first detailed reconnaissance of the region for a European power, and in so doing, claimed the region for the King of France.
Diego Garcia had no permanent inhabitants when discovered by the Spanish explorer Diego García de Moguer in the 16th century and remained so until settled as a French colony in 1793.
* 1873 – Francis Garnier, French explorer ( b. 1839 )
French explorer Antoine Laumet de La Mothe, sieur de Cadillac sailed up the Detroit River on July 23, 1701.
* 1840 – Henri Duveyrier, French explorer ( d. 1892 )
* 1772 – Marc-Joseph Marion du Fresne, French explorer ( b. 1724 )
* 1637 – Jacques Marquette, French missionary and explorer ( d. 1675 )
* 1534 – French explorer Jacques Cartier plants a cross on the Gaspé Peninsula and takes possession of the territory in the name of Francis I of France.
* 1786 – Joseph Nicollet, French mathematician and explorer ( d. 1843 )
* 1740 – Jeanne Baré, French explorer ( d. 1803 )
Jacques-Yves Cousteau (; commonly known in English as Jacques Cousteau ; 11 June 1910 – 25 June 1997 ) was a French naval officer, explorer, conservationist, filmmaker, innovator, scientist, photographer, author and researcher who studied the sea and all forms of life in water.
It is believed that the French explorer Jean Nicolet was the first non-Native American to reach Lake Michigan in 1634 or 1638.
The lake was named for the French explorer Samuel de Champlain, who encountered it in 1609.
The French explorer Jacques Marquette contacted the tribe in 1673 and paved the way for trade with the French.
The French explorer Étienne de Veniard, Sieur de Bourgmont visited the people in the early 1720s.
* 1790 – Jules Dumont d ' Urville, French naval officer, admiral, and explorer ( d. 1842 )
* 1878 – Paul Pelliot, French sinologist and explorer ( d. 1945 )
* 1643 – Robert Cavelier de La Salle, French explorer ( d. 1687 )
* 1729 – Louis Antoine de Bougainville, French explorer ( d. 1811 )

French and Jean-Baptiste
* 1671 – Jean-Baptiste Rousseau, French poet ( d. 1741 )
* 1651 – Jean-Baptiste de La Salle, French educational reformer and Catholic saint ( d. 1719 )
* 1768 – Jean-Baptiste Bessières, French marshal ( d. 1813 )
* 1744 – Jean-Baptiste Lamarck, French scientist ( d. 1829 )
* 1725 – Jean-Baptiste Greuze, French painter ( d. 1805 )
* 1619 – Jean-Baptiste Colbert, French politician ( d. 1683 )
* 1773 – Jean-Baptiste de Villèle, French statesman ( d. 1854 )
* 1774 – Jean-Baptiste Biot, French physicist ( d. 1862 )
* 1719Jean-Baptiste de La Salle, French saint ( b. 1651 )
The French mathematician and astronomer Jean-Baptiste Morin observed Arcturus in the daytime with a telescope ( a first for any star other than the sun ) in 1635, and has been seen at or just before sunset with the naked eye.
* 1990 – Jean-Baptiste Maunier, French actor and singer
Two French trumpet technique books, authored by Jean-Baptiste Arban, and St. Jacome, were translated into English for use by American players.
* 1583 – Jean-Baptiste Morin, French scientist ( d. 1656 )
* 1680 – Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne de Bienville, French colonizer and Governor of Louisiana ( d. 1767 )
* 1677 – Jean-Baptiste Morin, French composer ( d. 1745 )
* The French Marquise de Créquy wrote in her book " Souvenirs ", that the tune Grand Dieu Sauve Le Roi, was written by Jean-Baptiste Lully in gratitude for the survival by Louis XIV of an anal fistula operation.
But, the recently appointed French Secretary of State, Jean-Baptiste Colbert, was trying to promote farming in the colony and was opposed to exploration and trapping.
He invited Jean-Baptiste Lully to establish the French opera, and a tumultuous friendship was established between Lully and playwright and actor Molière.
* 1714 – Jean-Baptiste Pigalle, French sculptor ( d. 1785 )
* 1704 – Jean-Baptiste de Boyer, Marquis d ' Argens, French writer ( d. 1771 )
* 1725 – Jean-Baptiste Donatien de Vimeur, comte de Rochambeau, French nobleman and soldier ( d. 1807 )
* 1790 – Jean-Baptiste L. Romé de l ' Isle, French chemist ( b. 1736 )
* 1867 – Jean-Baptiste Charcot, French scientist and medical doctor ( d. 1936 )
Jean-Paul Sartre was born in Paris as the only child of Jean-Baptiste Sartre, an officer of the French Navy, and Anne-Marie Schweitzer.
A French map produced in 1712 ( currently in the Canadian Museum of Civilization ), created by military engineer Jean-Baptiste de Couagne, identified Lake Ontario as " Lac Frontenac ".

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