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Aug 01, 1744 Quemper Guézennec, Brittany, France Died on 11 Dec 1787 (aged 43)
French explorer
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About Paul Antoine Fleuriot De Langle
- Paul Antoine Fleuriot de Langle (1 August 1744, château de Kerlouët at Quemper-Guézennec, Côtes-d'Armor – 11 December 1787, Maouna, Samoa) was a French vicomte, académicien de marine, naval commander and explorer.
- He was second in command of the La Pérouse expedition, which departed France on 1 August 1785 and was eventually lost in the Pacific.
- Fleuriot de Langle died in an encounter with natives in what is now American Samoa before the expedition was lost; his remains were returned to France, and were buried in the choir of the church of Saint-Louis at Brest.
