Cyrille Pierre Théodore Laplace
1793–1875
French naval officer. Commanded a surveying voyage of Asian and Pacific waters, and circumnavigated the globe aboard La Favorite, 1829–32; defended the work of French missionaries in Tahiti, Hawaii, and California, and collected natural history specimens on the voyage of L’Artémise, 1837–40.
Sources
Howgego 2003–8
NBU
Bibliography
Howgego, Raymond John. 2003–8. Encyclopedia of exploration. 4 vols. Potts Point: Hordern House.
NBU: Nouvelle biographie universelle depuis les temps les plus reculés jusqu’à nos jours, avec les renseignements bibliographiques et l’indication des sources a consulter. Edited by Jean Chrétien Ferdinand Hoefer. 46 vols. in 23. Paris: Firmin Didot Frères. 1852–66.
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