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page 119th-century French explorers
Jules Dumont d'Urville
French Navy officer and explorer (1790–1842)
Charles de Foucauld
French Catholic religious man, explorer and scholar (1858–1916)
Aimé Bonpland
French physician, botanist and explorer (1773-1858)
Antoine Thomson d'Abbadie
Irish-born French explorer, geographer, ethnologist, linguist and astronomer (1810-1897)
Jean-Baptiste Charcot
French scientist (1867-1936)
Paul du Chaillu
French-American anthropologist, zoologist and traveler
Louis de Freycinet
French navigator
Henri Mouhot
French explorer (1826–1861)
Francis Garnier
French Navy officer (1839-1873)
Joseph Paul Gaimard
French naval surgeon and naturalist (1793-1858)
Jane Dieulafoy
French archaeologist, explorer and writer (1851–1916)
Arnaud-Michel d'Abbadie
French and Basque geographer (1815-1893)
Henri Duveyrier
French explorer of the Sahara (1840–1892)
François André Michaux
French botanist (1770-1855)
Louis-Isidore Duperrey
French explorer (1786-1865)
François Péron
French scientist and explorer
Ernest Doudart de Lagrée
French explorer (1823–1868)
Jules Crevaux
explorer (1847-1882)
Gabriel Bonvalot
French explorer (1853-1933)
Jean-Marie Delavay
French botanist (1834-1895)
Emmanuel Liais
French astronomer, botanist and explorer (1826-1900)
Jean Dybowski
Explorer and agronomist (1856-1928)
Auguste Pavie
French diplomat and explorer; active in French Indochina (1847-1925)
Alfred Duvaucel
French naturalist and explorer
Guillaume Lejean
French explorer
Fernand Foureau
French explorer, colonial administrator, and Governor of Martinique from 1908 to 1913 (1850 – 1914)
Paul Crampel
French explorer (1864–1891)
Eugène Mage
French Navy officer (1837–1869)
François Désiré Roulin
French explorer and scientist
Pierre-Médard Diard
French naturalist and explorer (1794–1863)
Xavier Montrouzier
French scientist (1820-1897)
Félix Dubois
French journalist and explorer (1862–1945)
Louis Maurice Adolphe Linant de Bellefonds
explorer and chief engineer of the Suez Canal (1798-1883)
Jean-Marie Chopin
French explorer
Charles Rabot
French explorer (1856-1944)
Henry Russell
French mountaineer and explorer (1834–1909)
Pierre Antoine Delalande
French naturalist, with the Muséum d'Histoire naturelle de Paris, was sent 1818 to South Africa in order to find animals and plants at the Cape of Good Hope, returned to France 1820 bringing 800-900 living plants.
Jules de Blosseville
French explorer (1802–1833)
Louis Delaporte
French explorer (1842–1925)
Justin Goudot
French naturalist, explorer and collector (1802-1847)
Pierre Adolphe Lesson
French botanist (1805–1888)
Charles Wiener
Austrian-French explorer
Oscar Comettant
French composer (1819-1898)
Louis du Couret
French born explorer, military officer, and writer
Marcel Treich-Laplène
French colonial governor (1860–1890)
François Joseph Clozel
French military officer, colonial administrator, and governor-general
Aimé Olivier de Sanderval
French explorer
Isabelle Massieu
French explorer, photographer and travel writer
Charles-Édouard Hocquard
French explorer and photographer
Rose de Freycinet
French explorer (1794–1832)
Christian de Bonchamps
French explorer
Adolphe Delessert
French explorer (1809-1869)
Christian Garnier
French geographer (1872-1898)
Jean Baptiste Douville
French explorer
Louis-Marie-François Tardy de Montravel
French admiral (1811-1864)
Antoine-Alfred Marche
French naturalist (1844 - 1898)
Charles Jacquinot
French Naval officer
Anatole-Joseph Toulotte
French White Fathers missionary
Casimir Maistre
French explorer
Noël Ballay
French explorer and diplomat (1847–1902)