Christophe Paulin de la Poix de Fréminville
Christophe Paulin de la Poix de Fréminville , Chevalier de Fréminville, (born January 24, 1787 in Ivry-sur-Seine , † January 12, 1848 in Brest ) was a French naval officer, naturalist ( zoologist ), and archaeologist.
Life
Fréminville entered the Navy in 1801 at the age of 14 and took part in the military expedition to Saint-Domingue until 1803 . He then served as an ensign on various frigates of the French Navy in the war against the English, including on a pirate voyage on the La Sirène against English whalers to Spitsbergen and Iceland (1806/07). He did not become a lieutenant until 1811 and even with the return of the Bourbons he rose only slowly because there were no fighting. He sailed the Baltic Sea and with the Néreide West Africa and in 1822 the Caribbean. In 1824 he commanded his own ship, the Fleute Bonite and in 1825 the Ardor . He was interested in natural history, but applied in vain for a research trip. In 1827 he became a frigate captain. In 1829 he tested a log from Pierre Bouguer , which he found unsuitable. In 1831 he left the French Navy and lived in Brest.
Under the pseudonym Caroline de L. he published a treatise on the wearing of women's clothes ( Essai sur l'influence du costume féminin ) and himself publicly wore women's clothes. He is said to have started after the death of his girlfriend (a Creole on the Iles des Saintes by the name of Caroline who committed suicide when he set sail). The book looked scandalous at the time. His nickname was La Chevalière .
He was a pioneer of archeology in Brittany and published books about it. For example, he was the first to report on the megalithic monument Ty-ar-C'huré, and descriptions of megalithic monuments of the Crozon Peninsula that were later destroyed have been preserved from him . Under the pseudonym Bajot he published on the history of voyages of discovery. In 1913 his memoirs were published. He also edited a poem Le combat des Trente from the 14th century (1819) and the Voyage dans le Finistère by the Breton writer Jacques Cambry (1749-1807).
As a zoologist, he was the first to describe the Galapagos bull head shark .
He was a knight of the Order of Malta , the Ordre royal et militaire de Saint-Louis and the Order of Christ of Portugal . He was a member of the Sociétés Philomatique et d'Histoire naturelle in Paris and the Association du Temple in Brest , which saw itself as the successor to the Templar Order .
literature
- Eugène Herpin: Mémoires du chevalier de Fréminville (1787–1848), capitaine des Frégates du Roi , Champion, 1913, new edition: La Découvrance 2006, archive , review, Annales de Bretagne, volume 29, 1913, p. 347
- Jean Merrien: Un certain chevalier de Fréminville 1787–1848 , Éditions maritimes et d'outre-mer, 1970
- Annie Chassing-Burette: La vérité travestie du chevalier de Fréminville In: Bulletin de la société archéologique du Finistère Volume 142, 2014, pp. 199–224.
Remarks
- ^ Paris, Imprimerie de Stahl 1831.
- ↑ Antiquités de la Bretagne. Monuments du Morbihan , Brest, Lefournier et Deperiers, 1829, reprinted 1834; Antiquités de la Bretagne. Finistère , 2 volumes, Brest, 1832, 1835; Antiquités de la Bretagne. Côtes-du-Nord , Brest: JB Lefournier, 1837.
- ↑ Abrégé historique et chronologique des principaux voyages de découverte par mer, depuis l'an 2000 avant J.-C. , Imprimerie Royale 1829
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | La Poix de Fréminville, Christophe Paulin de |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French naval officer, zoologist and archaeologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 24, 1787 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Ivry-sur-Seine |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 12, 1848 |
| Place of death | Brest |