The First Woman to Circumnavigate the World
In 1766 Captain Louis Antoine de Bougainville left France in command of the ships La Boudeuse and Étoile. He was leading a three-year scientific expedition around the world, amid high hopes that the voyage would achieve much. But one of the voyage’s accomplishments would come as a surprise to Bougainville. Onboard the Étoile was the woman who would become the first to circumnavigate the globe. This was unknown to the expedition's leader, because the woman concerned, Jeanne B
