Augustin de Beaulieu

Augustin de Beaulieu , born with Rouen in 1589 and died in Toulon in 1637, is a navigator and Explorateur French.

It makes known very early its well defined vocation for the marine towards which it had turned all its studies. As of the age of twenty-three years, it carries out with the knight of Bricqueville, a Norman gentleman, a first voyage on the coasts of Africa in the intention establishing a French colony there.

Being attached, in 1616, with a company formed for an commercial exploitation in the the Indies, it obtains the control of a ship under the orders of the captain of Nets. They are attacked vigorously by the Dutch which succeed in taking the largest ship to them, ordered by the captain of Nets. Having escaped with the catch, the cargo of that which assembled of Beaulieu is more than sufficient to cover the expenses of the company.

In 1619, it obtains the command of a new forwarding in the Indies with two large buildings and a patache. Again attacked by the Dutchmen who burn one of his buildings whereas it returns with its cargo, it succeeds in escaping to them by entirely saving the other.

Called, a few years later, to the service of the king, it is sent in the Ile de Ré, where the calvinist S had just made a demonstration. Knowing his merit and appreciating his bravery, the cardinal of Richelieu makes him give the command of a war building to go, with the army under the orders of the count d' Harcourt, to put the seat in front of the islands Holy-Marguerite and Saint-Honorat. After the catch of these islands and, with the return of a forwarding of the army in Sardinia, it falls ill in Toulon where he dies of the Yellow fever.

Work

  • Augustin de Beaulieu, Memories of a voyage to the the Eastern Indies, 1619-1622: a Norman merchant with Sumatra , ED. Denys Lombard, Paris, Maisonneuve & Larose, 1996 ISBN 2706812443

References

  • Gabriel Gravel, Augustin Beaulieu, navigator rouennais (1589-1637) , Rouen, Cagniard, 1897

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