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1729 – 1811Louis Antoine de Bougainville (1729-1811)Died 31 August 1811, aged 81French admiral and explorer who led the first French circumnavigation of the globe and wrote an influential account of Tahiti. The flowering plant bougainvillea was named in his honor. He later served as a naval commander in the American Revolutionary War.