Louis Receveur | |
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 1842 sketch of the Bougainville grave and tree | |
| Born | c1750 |
| Died | 17 February 1788 (aged 37–38) |
| Burial place | La Perouse, New South Wales 33°59′17″S 151°13′56″E / 33.988169°S 151.232105°E |
| Nationality | French |
Claude-Francois Joseph Louis Receveur O.F.M. Conv., (1757 – 17 February 1788) was a French friar priest, naturalist and astronomer who sailed with Jean-François de Galaup, comte de La Pérouse.
Receveur was also considered a skilled botanist, geologist, chemist, meteorologist, and philologist and has been described as being as close as one could get to being an ecologist in the 18th century.[1]