title: List of French explorers
text: # List of French explorers
  
  The following is a list of French people known as explorers.
  
  ## Before 1500
  
  * Jean de Béthencourt (Canary Islands)
  * Gadifer de la Salle (Canary Islands)
  
  ## 16th century
  
  * Thomas Aubert (Newfoundland)
  * Jacques Cartier (North America)
  * Philippe de Corguilleray (Brazil)
  * Joseph de La Roche Daillon (North America)
  * François Le Grout du Closneuf (Indian Ocean)
  * Jean Ribault (North America)
  
  ## 17th century
  
  * Michel Aco (Mississippi River)
  * Philippe Avril (Near East, Russia)
  * Jean Barbot (West Africa)
  * Nicolas Barré (Brazil)
  * Augustin de Beaulieu (Sumatra)
  * Étienne Brûlé (North America)
  * François Caron (Indonesia, Japan)
  * François Cauche (Indian Ocean, Madagascar)
  * René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle (North America)
  * Samuel de Champlain (North America)
  * Jean Chardin (Iran, India)
  * Daniel de la Rivardière (South America)
  * Simon François Daumont de Saint-Lusson (North America)
  * Nicolas Denys (North America)
  * Sieur Dubois (Indian Ocean, Madagascar, Réunion)
  * Médard Chouart des Groseilliers (North America)
  * Henri Joutel (North America)
  * François de La Boullaye-Le Gouz (Iran)
  * Jacques Marquette (North America)
  * Jean Nicolet (North America)
  
  ## 18th century
  
  * Jeanne Baré (circumnavigation)
  * Nicolas Baudin (Indian Ocean, Australia)
  * Jean-Baptiste Bénard de la Harpe (North America)
  * Louis Blanchette (North America)
  * Joseph Hugues Boissieu La Martinière (Pacific Ocean)
  * Louis Antoine de Bougainville (circumnavigation)
  * Étienne de Veniard, Sieur de Bourgmont (North America)
  * Antoine Bruni d'Entrecasteaux (Indian Ocean, Pacific Ocean)
  * Pierre Carré de Luzançay (Indian Ocean, Pacific Ocean)
  * Pierre Céloron de Blainville (North America)
  * Charles Pierre Claret de Fleurieu (oceans, New Guinea)
  * Philibert Commerson (circumnavigation, Indian Ocean)
  * Victor de Compiègne (Central Africa)
  * Julien Crozet (Indian Ocean, Antarctic)
  * Joachim Darquistade (South America)
  * Michel Dubocage (Pacific Ocean)
  * Abraham Duquesne-Guitton (Australia)
  * Louis Feuillée (Antilles, South America)
  * Paul Antoine Fleuriot de Langle (Pacific Ocean)
  * Alexandre d'Hesmivy d'Auribeau (Pacific Ocean)
  * Louis de l'Isle (Siberia, North America)
  * Jean Gilbert Nicomède Jaime (West Africa)
  * Charles Marie de La Condamine (South America)
  * Charles Joseph Lambert (Egypt, Sudan)
  * Jean-François de La Pérouse (Pacific Ocean)
  * Francis de Laporte de Castelnau (South America)
  * Antoine-Simon Le Page du Pratz (North America)
  * Lazare Picault (Indian Ocean)
  * Jean-François-Marie de Surville (Pacific Ocean)
  
  ## 19th century
  
  * Antoine Thomson d'Abbadie (Ethiopia)
  * Alexandre d'Albéca (Bénin)
  * Jacques Arago (circumnavigation)
  * Léonie d'Aunet (Spitsbergen)
  * Francis Barrallier (Australia)
  * Paul Du Chaillu (Central Africa, Scandinavia)
  * Ferdinand de Béhagle (Central Africa)
  * Joseph René Bellot (Arctic)
  * Paul Blanchet (Sahara)
  * Jules de Blosseville (Arctic)
  * Charles Eudes Bonin (East Asia)
  * Aimé Bonpland (South America)
  * Gabriel Bonvalot (Central Asia, Tibet)
  * Ismaël Bou Derba (Sahara)
  * Édouard Bouët-Willaumez (West Africa)
  * Jules Braouezec (West Africa, Central Africa)
  * René Caillié (West Africa)
  * Frédéric Cailliaud (Egypt, Sudan, Ethiopia)
  * Ernest Carette (Algeria)
  * Edmond Caron (West Africa)
  * Jean Chaffanjon (South America, Central Asia)
  * Camille de Roquefeuil (circumnavigation, Pacific Ocean)
  * Désiré Charnay (Mexico)
  * Alfred Le Chatelier (Africa)
  * Henri Coudreau (South America)
  * Paul Crampel (Central Africa)
  * Jules Crevaux (South America)
  * Armand David (East Asia)
  * Louis Delaporte (Southeast Asia)
  * Georges Destenave (West Africa, Central Africa)
  * Ernest Doudart de Lagrée (Southeast Asia)
  * Francis Garnier (Southeast Asia)
  * Pierre-Médard Diard (Southeast Asia)
  * Albert Dolisie (Central Africa)
  * Ernest Doudart de Lagrée (Southeast Asia)
  * Camille Douls (North Africa)
  * Jean Duchesne-Fournet (Ethiopia)
  * Jules Dumont d'Urville (Pacific Ocean, Antarctic)
  * Louis Isidore Duperrey (Pacific Ocean)
  * Abel Aubert du Petit-Thouars (Pacific Ocean)
  * Paul Flatters (Sahara)
  * Charles de Foucauld (North Africa)
  * Fernand Foureau (Africa)
  * Alfred Fourneau (Central Africa)
  * Louis de Freycinet (Pacific Ocean)
  * Joseph Paul Gaimard (Arctic)
  * Émile Gentil (Central Africa)
  * Henri Grout de Beaufort (West Africa)
  * Charles Guillain (East Africa, Indian Ocean)
  * Jules Harmand (Southeast Asia)
  * Xavier Hommaire de Hell (Russia, Iran)
  * Évariste Huc (China, Mongolia)
  * François-Joseph-Amédée Lamy (Africa)
  * Jean-Baptiste Marchand (Africa)
  * Parfait-Louis Monteil (Africa)
  * Joseph Nicollet (North America)
  * Auguste Pavie (Southeast Asia)
  
  ## 20th century
  
  * Jean Alt (Antarctica)
  * Louis Audouin-Dubreuil (Sahara)
  * Louis Brusset (Sahara)
  * Jean-Baptiste Charcot (Arctic, Antarctic)
  * Norbert Casteret (Caves)
  * Pierre Chevalier (caver) (Caves)
  * Raymond Coche (Sahara)
  * Alexandra David-Néel (East Asia)
  * Jean-Louis Étienne (Arctic, Antarctic)
  * Bertrand Flornoy (South America)
  * Édouard-Alfred Martel (Caves)
  * Théodore Monod (Sahara)
  * Paul Pelliot (Central Asia)
  * Haroun Tazieff (Volcanos and caves)
  * Paul-Émile Victor (Arctic, Antarctic)
  