Gustave Lambert

Gustave Lambert , born in 1824 and died in Buzenval the January 29th 1871, is a French hydrograph and navigator.

Biography

Originating in the Ain, excluded from the Polytechnic school for indiscipline, Gustave Lambert arrives at Fécamp for hardly more than one year and exerts there as mathematics professor for the candidates with the master's certificate.

He is also militant republican and implies himself in the legislative elections which follow the end of the Monarchie of July. He supports in Fécamp the citizen Paul Vasselin and takes part in a media war between the Journal of Fécamp and the Progressif cauchois . The conservatives carry it, leading Napoleon III to the presidency of the Republic.

Lambert leaves Fécamp for Brest. It becomes Hydrographe and tries during twenty years to assemble a forwarding for the conquest of the North pole, hoping to find a way little taken by the ices. Thus in 1865, it explores the north of the Bering Strait, but runs up against the fields of polar ice-barrier which it does not manage to cross. Of return to Paris, it gives conferences during which it thinks persuaded that a ship equipped well could pass the barrier of the drift ice and sail freely to the north pole. Thus is born the “Boréal project”, of the name of the ship which must bring to it. It returns to present its project to Fécamp, but it pains to obtain the required funds with the equipment of Boreal, and in spite of the support of Napoleon III, the subscriptions which it lance have little success. Its efforts are actively assisted by a young medical student, Octave Pavy (1844-1884), which is impassioned at its side for the exploration of the Poles.

Gustave Lambert finds death on January 21st, 1871 at the time of the Bataille of Buzenval, as a combatant the Prussian artillery. The project will thus be born never. The associate of Lambert, Pavy Octave, will only continue his search while going to America; he will perish in the high Canadian Arctic a few years later, at the conclusion of the terrible forwarding of Adolphus Greely (1882-1884), without to have found the sea free of which the hydrograph dreamed.

Gallery

Two posters announcing the rise in balloon of the North pole , organized by Gaston Tissandier and Wilfrid de Fonvielle, for the benefit of the forwarding of Gustave Lambert, on Sunday, June 27, 1869 with the Field-of-March in Paris.

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