[The Symzonia Review] July 27

[Symzonia Review]

Jeanne Baré was born on the 27th in 1740. Disguised as a man, she was a member of of Louis Antoine de Bougainville's expedition on the ships La Boudeuse and Étoile, which made a circumnavigation of the planet. This voyage made Baré the most likely candidate for being the first woman to have completed a voyage of circumnavigation.
Jeanne had begun dressing as a man after losing a lawsuit which left her with very little money. In order to get a job, she dressed as a man. On this voyage, her true gender remained unknown to the captain and the crew until the expedition put in at Tahiti for supplies at which point the natives outted Jeanne, and she was hurried back to the ship. I can’t find any source indicating what happened there and I can only guess why she had to be ‘hurried’ back but the implication is clear.
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