Pierre faure biography

French geographer (1777–1855)

This article is about the geographer. For the former automobile manufacturer, see Pierre Faure (automobile). For other uses, see Faure.

Pierre Ange François-Xavier Faure (1777, Nantes – 1855) was a French geographer who participated in the expedition to the South Seas that Nicolas Baudin led between 1800 and 1803 and that was back in March 1804 in Lorient.

Installed first on the Naturaliste during this voyage of scientific exploration, he was the first to see and draw the plan of Faure Island, an island in Shark Bay on the Western Australian coast to which the expedition gave his name.

He boarded the Géographe at Port Jackson on 3 November 1802. On 15 décembre 1803, at his request, he left the end of the expedition when it stopped at île de France on its return.

Pierre Faure was a corresponding member of the Société des observateurs de l'homme.

Bibliography

• Nicolas Baudin, Mon voyage aux Terres australes, journal personnel du commandant Baudin, imprimerie nationale, 2000
• Dany Bréelle, Les Géographes de l'e
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  Pierre Faure (abt. 1675 - bef. 1745)

  Pierre(Peter)Faure aka Ford

  Born about in Berry, France[uncertain]

  Ancestors

  Son of Daniel Faure and Mary (Chastain) Faure

  Brother of Daniel Faure II, Elizabeth (Faure) Morrisett and Ann Faure

  Descendants

  Father of Jean Faure, Daniel Faure II, Pierre Faure, Jacque (Faure Ford) Faure, Judith (Faure) Leake, Mary (Faure) Fuqua and Joseph Ford

  Died before before about age 70in King William Parish, Goochland County, Colony of Virginia

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  Biography

  Peter Faure was a Huguenot emigrant (1540-1790).

  Pierre Faure was born in about 1675 in central France. His coat of arms shows that he was from the Faure family of Auvergne^[1]which was near the province of Berry, where he is thought to have been born.^{[citation needed]}

  In about 1695 he married Elizabeth Agee, born in about 1677 in France. ^[2]

  He fled the persecution of protestants in France and arrived at James Town, Virginia on March 5, 1701 on the ship La Nasseau^[3], with his