Garnier, FRANCIS

Garnier, FRANCIS, sailor and traveller, was born at St Etienne, 25th July 1839, and entering the navy fought in the Chinese war (1860–62). Appointed to a post in French Cochinchina, he promoted a great exploring expedition, of which he ultimately assumed the command. Starting from the coast of Cambodia (q.v.), the expedition travelled to Shanghai by way of Yunnan. He took part in the defence of Paris in 1870–71, and subsequently travelled again in China. In the Tonkin war he took Hanoi, but was killed, 2d December 1873. His chief work is Voyage d'Exploration en Indo-Chine (2 vols. 1873). See Petit's Francis Garnier (Paris, 1885).