FRANCOIS VAILLANT
\fɹˈanswɑː vˈe͡ɪlənt], \fɹˈanswɑː vˈeɪlənt], \f_ɹ_ˈa_n_s_w_ɑː v_ˈeɪ_l_ə_n_t]\
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A celebrated French traveler and ornithologist; born in Paramaribo, Dutch Guiana, in 1753; died near Sezanne, November 1824. He passed many years in France and Germany, from 1764 on, studying the habits of birds. He spent 1780-84 in South Africa, exploring among the Kaffirs, etc.; and returning to France, published the interesting "Journey in the Interior of Africa" (2 vols., 1790-96). He barely escaped death in the Terror, 1793. He published a "Natural History of the Birds of Africa" (6 vols., 1796-1812), and several minor works on birds.
By Charles Dudley Warner
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