Étienne de Flacourt
Étienne de Flacourt (1607–1660) was a French governor of Madagascar, born in Orléans in 1607. He was named governor of Madagascar by the French East India Company in 1648.[1]
Flacourt restored order among the French soldiers, who had
Malagasy, he was less successful; he was continually harassed by their intrigues and attacks during his entire term of office.[1]
In 1655, he returned to France and, not long after, he was appointed director general of the company; after again returning to Madagascar, he drowned on his voyage home on the 10th of June 1660. He is the author of a Histoire de la grande isle de Madagascar (1st edition 1658, 2nd edition 1661).[1]
Flacourt was one of the few, if not the only, Westerners to have recorded knowledge of the
dwarf hippopotamus
of Madagascar when they were possibly still extant.
Flacourtia, a genus of flowering plants in the willow family, Salicaceae, was named in his honor .[2]
Notes
- ^ a b c Chisholm 1911.
- ISBN 978-0-8240-7234-6.
References
- This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Flacourt, Étienne de". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 10 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 454. This cites:
- Arthur Malotet, Ét. de Flacourt, ou les origines de la colonisation française à Madagascar (1648–1661), (Paris, 1898).
- Kay, J. (2004). "Étienne de Flacourt, L'Histoire de le Grand Île de Madagascar (1658)". Curtis's Botanical Magazine. 21 (4): 251–257. .
External links
- Histoire de la Grande Isle Madagascar – online book (French)
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