Manila folder labelled 'Ventenat'

Containers:

Box 2 (MS Acc22.020)

Component identifier:

File 32

Content Summary:

Abbé Louis Ventenat (1765–1794), was a chaplain and naturalist on d'Entrecasteaux's expedition in search of Lapérouse, 1791–1793. He was the younger brother of the botanist Etienne-Pierre Ventenat (1757–1808). The folder contains a photocopy of the registration of Ventenat's baptism on 19 February 1765, in the parish of Saint-Pierre-du-Queyroix, Limoges; a photocopy of two pages from his journal during the d'Entrecasteaux expedition's visit to the Cape of Good Hope; a photocopy of Delage, F., 'Philippe-Etienne Ventenat et le Lycée de Limoges', Bulletin de la Société archéologique et historique du Limousin, tome 58, 1908, pp. 107–118 and Duyker's draft entry for the Dictionnaire de Biographie mauricienne (no. 54, octobre 2000, pp. 1786–88)

Immediate source of acquisition:

This collection was acquired from Edward Duyker in multiple instalments from 1996 to 2022.

Subjects:

Exploration
History

Access and use