Louis Receveur
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Claude-Francois Joseph Louis Receveur O.F.M. Conv., (1757 – 17 February 1788) was a French friar priest, naturalist and astronomer who sailed with Jean-François de Galaup, comte de La Pérouse.
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Louis Receveur | |
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Born | c1750 |
Died | 17 February 1788(1788-02-17) (aged 37–38) |
Burial place | La Perouse, New South Wales 33°59′17″S 151°13′56″E |
Nationality | French |
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Receveur was also considered a skilled botanist, geologist, chemist, meteorologist, and philologist and has been described as being as close as one could get to being an ecologist in the 18th century.[1]