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Jean-Pierre de Bougainville (1 December 1722, in
Académie française
{{DEFAULTSORT:Bougainville 1722 births 1763 deaths 18th-century French writers 18th-century French male writers Members of the Académie Française Members of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres
Jean-Pierre de Bougainville (1 December 1722, in Paris
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– 22 June 1763, in Loches
Loches () is a commune in the Indre-et-Loire department, central France.
It is situated southeast of Tours by road, on the left bank of the river Indre.
History
Loches (the Roman ''Leucae'') grew up around a monastery founded about 500 by St ...
) was a French writer and the elder brother of the explorer Louis Antoine de Bougainville
Louis-Antoine, Comte de Bougainville (, , ; 12 November 1729 – August 1811) was a French admiral and explorer. A contemporary of the British explorer James Cook, he took part in the Seven Years' War in North America and the American Revolutio ...
. He was elected to the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres
The Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres () is a French learned society devoted to history, founded in February 1663 as one of the five academies of the Institut de France. The academy's scope was the study of ancient inscriptions (epigr ...
in 1746 and he became Permanent Secretary in 1754, the same year he rose to the Académie française.
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