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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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