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Never know what will turn up on a ski forum. Ever heard of the French woman who sailed around the world with her husband in the early 19th century? She was on board for 2.5 years! He was the captain and made arrangements that made it possible for her to have her own cabin the entire time. Academic research into the documentation still available has brought out not only her story, but the effort that went into keeping her journey a secret from the public afterwards because it was illegal to have a woman on board a French Navy ship.
The article is an interview with an Australian professor. The Freycinet Peninsula on the east coast of Tasmania is named for Captain Louis de Freycient, who was first person to publish a complete map of Australia's coastline as a sub-lieutenant of French naturalist Nicolas Baudin. The voyage with his young wife started six years after that trip.
May 4, 2022 (Australia)
www.abc.net.au
The article is an interview with an Australian professor. The Freycinet Peninsula on the east coast of Tasmania is named for Captain Louis de Freycient, who was first person to publish a complete map of Australia's coastline as a sub-lieutenant of French naturalist Nicolas Baudin. The voyage with his young wife started six years after that trip.
May 4, 2022 (Australia)
Rose de Freycinet circumnavigated the world and wrote about it. Male editors changed her story
In 1817, a young French woman dressed as a man and stowed away on her naval husband's boat. But her remarkable journey around the world was almost erased from history.
www.abc.net.au
