Marc Joseph Marion du Fresne

MarcJoseph Marion du Fresne , with the surname sometimes spelled Dufresne, was a Bretonborn French explorer who made important discoveries in the south Indian Ocean, in Tasmania and in New Zealand. Du Fresne was killed by Maori in 1772.

Du Fresne was born in Saint Malo and, until recently, was thought to have joined the French East India Company at the age ofas a sublieutenant aboard the Duc de Bourgogne. However, the Australian historian Edward Duyker, in the French edition of his biography of Marion Dufresne, has revealed that this was in fact the future explorers older brother.

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