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Jean-Baptiste Charles Bouvet de Lozier (14 January 1705 – 1786) was a French explorer and colonial administrator of theMascarene Islands to the east ofMadagascar.
He wasorphaned at the age of seven, and after being educated inParis, he was sent toSaint Malo to studynavigation. He became alieutenant of theFrench East India Company in 1731. He succeeded in convincing his employer to provide him with two ships and send him on an exploration mission in theSouth Atlantic. With his ships,Aigle andMarie, he discovered on 1 January 1739 a tiny island which was namedBouvet Island after him,[1] the world’s remotest island; however, he mislabelled the coordinates for the island, causing it to be lost until it was rediscovered seven decades later in 1808. Shortly afterwards, he had to abandon the expedition because most of his crew had fallen ill; his ship then called at theCape of Good Hope and returned toFrance.
Ten years after his expedition, Lozier was appointedgovernor of theMascarene Islands twice, once from 1750 to 1752 and a second time from 1757 to 1763. In 1769, he married the grandniece ofCardinal de Fleury, Mademoiselle de Laumont, with whom he had a son.[1]
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