Jean-Baptiste Labat

Jean-Baptiste Labat
Born1663 (1663)
near Paris
DiedJanuary 6, 1738(1738-01-06) (aged 74–75)
Paris
ChurchRoman Catholic
WritingsNouveau voyage aux iles de l'Amerique and Voyage du Chevalier Demarchais en Guinee, iles voisines, et a Cayenne, fait en 1725, 1726, et 1727

Jean-Baptiste Labat (sometimes called, simply, Père Labat) (1663 – 6 January 1738) was a French clergyman, botanist, writer, explorer, ethnographer, soldier, engineer, and landowner.