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François Edmond Paris


NationalityFrench 
RolesNaval Sailor, Administrator 
Date of Birth2.3.1806 - Paris ref:631
First Known Service1820ref:631
Last Known Service1876ref:631
Date of Death8.4.1893 - Paris ref:631

Event History


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  Appointed Grand-croix de Ordre Royal de la Légion d'Honneurref:631
1820 Appointed Elève au Collège Royal d'Angoulèmeref:631
1.5.1822 Aspirantref:631
18261829Made almost in quick succession three great voyages of circumnavigation and discovery , the first aboard the "Astrolabe" , under the orders of Dumont d'Urville , and takes part in the Dumont d'Urville campaign in the archipelagos of the Pacific Ocean . He will show a developed taste for hydrology and ethnography .ref:631
29.10.1826 Enseigne de Vaisseauref:631
18291832Second voyage of circumnavigation and discovery , aboard the "Favorite" , under Commander Laplace .ref:631
1.9.1832 Lieutenant de Vaisseauref:631
1833 The Minister of the Navy instructed him to study in England , with the most renowned engineers and builders , the question of machinery and maritime navigation , steam , then much more advanced in this country than in France .ref:631
18341836The success of this mission, which opened up a new horizon for his career, earned him, at the age of twenty-eight, the honor of commanding one of the first steam ships of the French fleet : the commandments of the "Castor" (1834-36) .ref:631
18371840Third voyage of circumnavigation and discovery , aboard the "Artémise" , under Commander Laplace .ref:631
30.9.1840 Capitaine de Frégateref:631
1843 Commander of the "Infernal" .ref:631
18441846Commander of the "Archimedes"  : the first steamer to have doubled the Cape of Good Hope .ref:631
1846aft.2.8.1847Commander of the royal yacht the "Comte d'Eu" : on August 2, 1847 , boiler explosion , of which 14 men were casualties .ref:631
8.9.1846 Capitaine de Vaisseauref:631
1848 Commander of the "Gomer" .ref:631
1850 Commander of the "Orénoque"ref:631
1854 Commander of the "Fleurus" vessel  .ref:631
18551856Commanded the division of the Dnieper after the capture of Kinburn (winter 1855-56) .ref:631
11.8.1855 Appointed Commandeur de Ordre Royal de la Légion d'Honneurref:631
1856 Commander of  the frigate "Audacieuse" , built by Dupuy de Lôme .ref:631
7.11.1858 Contre-Amiralref:631
bef.1.1.18601861Sub-commander in the Evolutions Squadron . Commander of the second division of the squadron , aboard the "Algeciras" .ref:631
22.6.1863 Appointed Membre de l'Académie des Sciences , Section de Géographie et de Navigation

replacing Bravais .

 

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c.1864 Appointed Membre du Bureau des Longitudes at Parisref:631
bef.1.1.1869 Appointed Vice-Président de la Commission des Phares at Paris

Membres : Aimé Coupvent-Desbois , Jean Saisset , Contre-Amiraux; Auguste Robiou de Lavrignais , Inspecteur général du Génie maritime;

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bef.1.1.1869 Appointed Directeur Général du Comité Hydrographique at Paris

listed Président

Membres : Benoît Darondeau , Ingénieur hydrographe en chef; Ferdinand Delaroche-Ponciè , Ingénieur hydrographe de 1ère classe; Ernest Bochet , Maurice Leps , Capitaines de vaisseau; Pierre Guieysse , Sous-Ingénieur hydrographe , Secrétaire .

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bef.1.1.1869 Appointed Directeur du Dépôt des Cartes et Plans de la Marine at Paris

for 7 years .

Adjoints : Benoît Darondeau , Ingénieur hydrographe en chef , Chef du Service Hydrographie, Pierre Le Gras , Capitaine de Frégate , Chef du Service des Instructions Nautiques et des Traductions ;

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12.12.18718.4.1893Appointed Conservateur du Musée de la Marine at Parisref:631
1876 Appointed Président de l'Académie des Sciences at Parisref:631

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