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    Étienne de Flacourt (1607–1660) was a French governor of Madagascar, born in Orléans in 1607. He was named governor of Madagascar by the French East India...
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    Elephant birds have been extinct since at least the 17th century. Étienne de Flacourt, a French governor of Madagascar during the 1640s and 1650s, mentioned...
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  • Paris, pp.197–202. Flacourt, Étienne de (1658). Dictionnaire de la langue de Madagascar. Paris. Berthier, H.J. (1934). De l'usage de l'arabico=malgache...
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    reported elephant bird sightings at least in folklore memory as Étienne de Flacourt wrote in 1658. Its egg, live or subfossilised, was known as early...
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    in the now defunct family Flacourtiaceae. The generic name honors Étienne de Flacourt (1607–1660), a governor of Madagascar. It contains 23 species of...
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    their home communities and with various royal families. — Étienne de Flacourt, l'Histoire de la Grande Isle Madagascar The "infiltration" of Malagasy kingdoms...
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    Toliara (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    Atsimo-Andrefana se prépare Institut National de la Statistique, Antananarivo. "Collège Étienne-de-Flacourt." AEFE. Retrieved on July 5, 2018. "Tulear/Toliara...
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    equipment and rules. For example, a 1658 account by French governor Étienne de Flacourt about a game played by the Sakalava people in northwestern Madagascar...
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    Malagasy. In 1648, Étienne de Flacourt became the French governor of Madagascar and he wrote in his Histoire de la grande isle de Madagascar about hearing...
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    Fort-Dauphin (Madagascar) (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    the survivors were evacuated in 1674. One Governor of this colony, Étienne de Flacourt, published the History of the Great Isle of Madagascar and Relations...
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    seven lemur species were described in detail by the French merchant, Étienne de Flacourt, who may also have been the only westerner to see and chronicle the...
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  • Fianarantsoa Collège français Françoise-Dolto in Majunga Collège Étienne-de-Flacourt in Toliara (Tuléar) Junior high school (collège): École La Clairefontaine...
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    "antamba", an animal allegedly from southern Madagascar described by Étienne de Flacourt in 1658 as a large, rare, leopard-like carnivore that eats men and...
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    naturalists that documented Madagascar's flora in the following centuries. Étienne de Flacourt, envoy of France at the military post of Fort Dauphin (Tolagnaro)...
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    island group. The area remained under nominal Portuguese rule until Étienne de Flacourt arrived with a French naval squadron and took possession in 1649...
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    been produced until that point. In the early 1600s, the explorer Étienne de Flacourt documented his travels to Madagascar, and illustrated the unique...
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    people fear it greatly and flee from it as it does from them. — Étienne de Flacourt, Histoire de la Grande Isle Madagascar, 1658 Local tales of a song'aomby...
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  • olsoni. Ibis, 150(1), 188-192. A commonly cited 1658 account by Étienne de Flacourt could as well be of Mullerornis, or based on second-hand reports...
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    History of the Jews in Madagascar (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    say there was a connection." 17th century French colonial governor Étienne de Flacourt reported of a group called the Zafy Ibrahim, whom he'd encountered...
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    colonial governor Étienne de Flacourt published a description of a pitcher plant in his seminal work Histoire de la Grande Isle de Madagascar. It reads:...
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    Jean Parmentier, captains of le Sacre and la Pensée ships. 1648 - Étienne de Flacourt reaches the Mandrare river and carves two words on a stone: "Cave...
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    Nicolas Oudot. Flacourt, E. de. 1661 [1995]. Histoire de la Grande Isle Madagascar. C. Allibert Ed. Paris: INALCO & Karthala. Flacourt, Étienne de & Allibert...
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  • Bobowski, is still unfinished by the time of Comenius' death in 1670. Étienne de Flacourt of the French East India Company publishes his part history, part...
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    espèce inconnue de microchiroptère observée par Bory de Saint-Vincent à l'île de la Réunion en 1801. Bulletin de la Société Geographique de la Réunion, 1(5)...
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    UNIVERSITY PRESS. ISBN 0-521-59169-4. Malotet, Arthur (1898). Étienne Flacourt ou les origines de la colonisation française à Madagascar (in French). Ernest...
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    scarce and, again, most of the settlers died. One of the survivors, Etienne de Flacourt, published a History of the Great Island of Madagascar and Relations...
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    is a 1658 list of birds of Madagascar written by French governor Étienne de Flacourt. He mentioned a black-and-grey "tivouch" or hoopoe; later authors...
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  • people as far back as 1661 by the French governor of Madagascar Étienne de Flacourt. Faranirina, L. (2019). "Dais glaucescens". IUCN Red List of Threatened...
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    espèce Adansonia za. de Flacourt, Étienne (1661). "CHAPITRE XIV Du pays des Mahafalles Houlouve Siveh & Vouronheoc". Histoire de la grande isle Madagascar:...
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  • conductor (died 1744) 10 June – Étienne de Flacourt, governor of Madagascar, drowned at sea (born 1607) 5 November – Alexandre de Rhodes, Jesuit missionary...
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