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Contre-amiral Jules Dumont d'Urville (1790-1842)
Jérôme Cartellier
Château de Versailles
(Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons)
Jules Dumont D'Urville
The Scientist, Botanist and Geographer
With Author Michael Lee
Friday 3rd May 2024 at NMIT -
T 309 from 6.00 pm
Michael Lee
Author of “Navigator’s and Naturalists. French Exploration of New Zealand and the South Seas (1769 – 1824)".
Known to many as an Auckland councillor and before that the chair of Auckland Regional Council. But he is also a keen historian, French speaker and enthusiast of the contributions that early French explorers made to New Zealand's history.
He has spent 12 years researching and writing his book, Navigators and Naturalists: French Exploration of New Zealand and the South Seas (1769-1824).
It's a work that hopes to shed more light on the work these explorers put in - often at great personal cost - to bring stories of New Zealand back to Europe (RNZ- 27/11/2018).
(link to the 2018 RNZ show)
The Scientist, Botanist and Geographer
With Author Michael Lee
Friday 3rd May 2024 at NMIT -
T 309 from 6.00 pm
Michael Lee
Author of “Navigator’s and Naturalists. French Exploration of New Zealand and the South Seas (1769 – 1824)".
Known to many as an Auckland councillor and before that the chair of Auckland Regional Council. But he is also a keen historian, French speaker and enthusiast of the contributions that early French explorers made to New Zealand's history.
He has spent 12 years researching and writing his book, Navigators and Naturalists: French Exploration of New Zealand and the South Seas (1769-1824).
It's a work that hopes to shed more light on the work these explorers put in - often at great personal cost - to bring stories of New Zealand back to Europe (RNZ- 27/11/2018).
(link to the 2018 RNZ show)
An evening with Michael Lee
Author of “Navigator’s and Naturalists. French Exploration of New Zealand and the South Seas (1769 – 1824)".
Navigators & Naturalists – French exploration of New Zealand and the South Seas 1769-1824 weaves together geographic, natural and human history. It sets the scientific exploration of New Zealand and the Pacific in the context of the French Enlightenment with its veneration of science and philosophy and the quest to map the whole world – and everything in it – minerals, plants, animals and peoples, that fueled the Age of Discovery.
Michael Lee first came across the journals of Dumont d’Urville’s 1827 Astrolabe voyage in 1996 when writing his thesis for a University of Auckland Master of Science degree in Biological Sciences.
This sparked his interest in the largely unappreciated role of French navigators and naturalists in the scientific discovery of New Zealand, the Pacific and Southern Ocean, and he has been researching and writing about this aspect of New Zealand’s history ever since.
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Tuku Whakatū 2021 - Heritage Month
Aotearoa and the French - part 2
Friday 16th April 2021 at NMIT - T 309 from 6.15 pm
Tuku Whakatū 2021 - Heritage Month
Aotearoa and the French - part 2
Friday 16th April 2021 at NMIT - T 309 from 6.15 pm
As part of Tuku 2021 our Alliance Francaise Nelson Tasman is contributing a series of talks about the important influence French missionaries had on early Aotearoa.
The talk will start with an overview of the work of the French Roman Catholic missionaries and their work with establishing the Marist Māori Mission in the early 19th century. The evening will begin with the life of Suzanne Aubert and Mary Hill will tell us in details the life of Father Antoine Marie Garin.
The context of French Catholic missions is found in 1815 at the fall of Napoleon III and the restoration of the Bourbon dynasty and the revival of French Catholic evangelism.
The Society of Mary ( Marists or Marist Fathers) was founded in 1816 by Father Jean-Claude Colin in Lyon France and many of the Marist clergy went to Aotearoa to pursue Māori missionary work, particularly in the North Island.
Bishop Pompallier was instrumental in establishing a Roman Catholic congregation in Aotearoa. Another well known personage being Sister Suzanne Aubert, known as the French woman who lived with the Māori. Sister Suzanne accompanied Bishop Pompallier on his second voyage to Aotearoa to recruit missionaries. Sister Suzanne was fluent in Te Reo and while living with Māori she learned and practiced Māori healing methods caring for women, children and the disadvantaged. Her memory is revered by many communities in Auckland, Hiruharama, Wellington, Hawkes Bay and Whanganui.
Mary Hill will discuss the connections between Bishop Pompalier, Sister Suzanne and Father Garin who all started their journey from Lyon.
Also you will able to here Mary and Doug Hill on the 17th April as part of the radioshow "Bavardages" from 5pm.
Ticket will be available from evenfinda - email [email protected] for more info.
The talk will start with an overview of the work of the French Roman Catholic missionaries and their work with establishing the Marist Māori Mission in the early 19th century. The evening will begin with the life of Suzanne Aubert and Mary Hill will tell us in details the life of Father Antoine Marie Garin.
The context of French Catholic missions is found in 1815 at the fall of Napoleon III and the restoration of the Bourbon dynasty and the revival of French Catholic evangelism.
The Society of Mary ( Marists or Marist Fathers) was founded in 1816 by Father Jean-Claude Colin in Lyon France and many of the Marist clergy went to Aotearoa to pursue Māori missionary work, particularly in the North Island.
Bishop Pompallier was instrumental in establishing a Roman Catholic congregation in Aotearoa. Another well known personage being Sister Suzanne Aubert, known as the French woman who lived with the Māori. Sister Suzanne accompanied Bishop Pompallier on his second voyage to Aotearoa to recruit missionaries. Sister Suzanne was fluent in Te Reo and while living with Māori she learned and practiced Māori healing methods caring for women, children and the disadvantaged. Her memory is revered by many communities in Auckland, Hiruharama, Wellington, Hawkes Bay and Whanganui.
Mary Hill will discuss the connections between Bishop Pompalier, Sister Suzanne and Father Garin who all started their journey from Lyon.
Also you will able to here Mary and Doug Hill on the 17th April as part of the radioshow "Bavardages" from 5pm.
Ticket will be available from evenfinda - email [email protected] for more info.
THE AOTEAROA AND THE FRENCH PART I
For our first evening , we are glad to have Doug Hill that will talk to us about the early settlers, and Bishop Pompallier, after introducing himself and his whakapapa.
• Early explorers
• First Catholic Bishop of Aotearoa New Zealand, Jean Baptiste François Pompallier (1802-1871)
Bishop Jean Baptiste François Pompallier headed the French Catholic missionary efforts in New Zealand and arrived in the Hokianga district in 1838. He spent 30 years in New Zealand, returning to France in 1869 and dying there in 1871.
Pompallier was not celebrated in France but New Zealanders remembered him and visited and tidied his grave in Puteaux near Paris.
Efforts to return Pompallier to New Zealand gained momentum in the 1990s. After gaining permission from the Pompallier family and French bishops, his body was disinterred in 2001 and returned to New Zealand in 2002. After being taken on a hikoi around New Zealand he was laid to rest beneath the altar of St Mary’s Church in Motuti in the Hokianga. This is the hikoi in Te Karaka, Northland.
For our first evening , we are glad to have Doug Hill that will talk to us about the early settlers, and Bishop Pompallier, after introducing himself and his whakapapa.
• Early explorers
• First Catholic Bishop of Aotearoa New Zealand, Jean Baptiste François Pompallier (1802-1871)
Bishop Jean Baptiste François Pompallier headed the French Catholic missionary efforts in New Zealand and arrived in the Hokianga district in 1838. He spent 30 years in New Zealand, returning to France in 1869 and dying there in 1871.
Pompallier was not celebrated in France but New Zealanders remembered him and visited and tidied his grave in Puteaux near Paris.
Efforts to return Pompallier to New Zealand gained momentum in the 1990s. After gaining permission from the Pompallier family and French bishops, his body was disinterred in 2001 and returned to New Zealand in 2002. After being taken on a hikoi around New Zealand he was laid to rest beneath the altar of St Mary’s Church in Motuti in the Hokianga. This is the hikoi in Te Karaka, Northland.