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The role of the French écu in the colonization of Western Australia
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The role of the French écu in the colonization of Western Australia

W.R. Bloom
Journal of the Numismatic Association of Australia, Vol.9, pp.34-42
1998
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Abstract

ln 1772 the French explorer Francois Alesno, Comte de Saint Allouarn sailed his ship Gros Ventre from Mauritius to Kerguelen Island in the lndian Ocean, and then on in search of Gonneville Land, named after the French explorer Binot Paulmier de Gonneville who had discovered an unknown land in I503…

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