Étienne de Flacourt
Étienne de Flacourt (1607–1660) was a French governor of Madagascar, born in Orléans in 1607. He was named governor of Madagascar by the French East India Company in 1648.Template:Sfn
Flacourt restored order among the French soldiers, who had mutinied. In his dealings with the Malagasy, he was less successful; he was continually harassed by their intrigues and attacks during his entire term of office.Template:Sfn
In 1655, he returned to France and, not long after, he was appointed director general of the company; after again returning to Madagascar, he drowned on his voyage home on the 10th of June 1660. He is the author of a Histoire de la grande isle de Madagascar (1st edition 1658, 2nd edition 1661).Template:Sfn
Flacourt was one of the few, if not the only, Westerners to have recorded knowledge of the elephant birds, sloth lemurs, giant fossas, and dwarf hippopotamus of Madagascar when they were possibly still extant.
Flacourtia, a genus of flowering plants in the willow family, Salicaceae, was named in his honor .[1]
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References
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- Arthur Malotet, Ét. de Flacourt, ou les origines de la colonisation française à Madagascar (1648–1661), (Paris, 1898).
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External links
- Histoire de la Grande Isle Madagascar – online book (French)
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- Wikipedia articles incorporating text from the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica
- Colonial governors of French Madagascar
- 17th-century French people
- 1607 births
- 1660 deaths
- People from Orléans
- French colonial governors and administrators
- People from the Orléanais