Jeanne Barret
See also: Barret (homonymy)
Born the July 27th 1740, Jeanne Barret is the first woman to make the round the world tour.
Partner of the Botanist Philibert Commerson, it is made pass for her servant, under the name of Jean Baré to accompany it in the forwarding directed by Bougainville in 1766, at one time when he is out of the question to take on board a woman. During the voyage, Commerson dedicates to him a shrub of the family of the Meliaceae : Baretia bonnafidia . Nevertheless, the plant will change, thereafter, of name to become Turrea heterophylla .
Their trickery is discovered with Tahiti in 1768 but Bougainville lets them continue the voyage to the Ile de France, current the Mauritius, where it unloads them. Commerson dies there in 1773.
Jeanne Marie thereafter and returns in France, thus buckling her Round the world tour. She dies there in 1807. She is buried with the cemetery of the church of Aulaye Saint, located on the commune of Saint-Antoine-with-Breuilh in the Dordogne. Its tomb is always visible there.
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