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    Jean-François Marie de Surville (18 January 1717 – 8 April 1770) was a merchant captain with the French East India Company. He commanded a voyage of exploration...
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  • Surville can refer to: Jean-François-Marie de Surville (1717-1770), a French trader and navigator Surville, Calvados, a commune in the Calvados département...
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    prosody. The manuscript had been in the possession of Jean François Marie, marquis de Surville, an Émigré who returned to France in 1798 to raise an insurrection...
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  • a dragoon unit, and two of his brothers, Étienne-François de Cillart de Villeneuve and Jean-Marie de Villeneuve Cillart, also served in the Navy. Cillart...
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    1950s as a hero in comedies by Philippe de Broca such as Male Companion and through his role as 'Jean François Jardie' in the famous French resistance...
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  • Le Page du Pratz (North America) Lazare Picault (Indian Ocean) Jean-François de Surville (Pacific Ocean) Antoine Thomson d'Abbadie (Ethiopia) Alexandre...
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    to seek it out on their voyages. In 1767, the French explorer Jean-François de Surville set out from Pondicherry in French India on an exploration and...
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    discovery of the cliffs was made by Jean-François-Marie de Surville in December 1769, when he sailed his ship St Jean Baptiste to New Zealand to find a...
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    if Father Paul-Antoine Léonard de Villefeix, the Dominican chaplain of the French navigator, Jean-François de Surville, celebrated Mass in Doubtless Bay...
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    Tasman in 1642, James Cook three times between 1769 and 1777, Jean-François de Surville in 1769 and Marian du Fresne in 1772 which included violent encounters...
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