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Des Barres, Joseph Frederick Wallet

(1721–1824)

Roger T. Stearn

https://doi.org/10.1093/ref:odnb/7541

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Des Barres, Joseph Frederick Wallet (1721–1824), hydrographer and colonial official, was born in November 1721, either in Basel, Switzerland, or in Paris, the eldest child of Joseph-Léonard Vallet des Barres, a Huguenot, and his wife, Anne-Catherine, née Cuvier. He was baptized Joseph-Frédéric Vallet...

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date: 28 February 2021

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