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Jacques Etienne Victor Arago (1790-1855)
No VAT will be charged on the hammer price, but VA… Read more ILE BOURBON (LA REUNION) The Uranie anchored off St. Denis, the capital of Bourbon, on 19 May 1818. The island had been under French rule since the sevententh century and was, in 1818, the last French colonial outpost in the Indian Ocean (Mauritius having been ceded to the British by the Treaty of Paris in 1814). It had changed its name frequently: Ile Bourbon was replaced by La Réunion during the Terror, then Ile Bonaparte, reverting to lle Bourbon with the restoration of Louis XVIII in 1814. The island had capitulated to the British in 1810, but was returned to the French by the Treaty of Paris in 1814. Freycinet took observations on the island, re-provisioned at St. Paul before sailing to New Holland.
Jacques Etienne Victor Arago (1790-1855)

Bourbon, 1818: Vue prise à Bourbon; Vue de l'encaissement de la rivière des galets prise de la gd route; and Vue de l'encaissement de la rivière de St. Denis, prise des remparts de la ville, 1818

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Jacques Etienne Victor Arago (1790-1855)
Bourbon, 1818: Vue prise à Bourbon; Vue de l'encaissement de la rivière des galets prise de la gd route; and Vue de l'encaissement de la rivière de St. Denis, prise des remparts de la ville, 1818
all signed, inscribed as titles and dated 'Js Arago fecit, 1818' (lower right)
pen and ink on paper
11¼ x 14¾in. (28.6 x 37.2cm.) and similar
3 (3)
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