Bory de Saint Vincent, JEAN BAPTISTE

Bory de Saint Vincent, JEAN BAPTISTE, a French traveller and naturalist, was born at Agen in 1780. In 1798 he explored Bourbon and other islands. He served in the army at Ulm and Austerlitz, on Soult's staff in Spain, and as a colonel at Waterloo; in 1816 he had to retire to Belgium. He returned to France in 1820, wrote for Liberal journals, and for Courtin's Encyclopédie, &c. In 1829 he headed a scientific expedition to the Morea, and in 1839 to Algeria. He died 22d December 1846. His most important productions were: Essai sur les Îles Fortunées (1803); Voyage dans les Îles d'Afrique (1804); Voyage Souterrain (an account of the Maestricht chalk-quarries, 1823); L'Homme, Essai Zoologique sur le Genre Humain (1827); Résumé de la Géographie de la Péninsule (1838).