jacques arago joined louis de freycinet as a drawer on his 1817 voyage around the world aboard the ship "uranie", which inspired his witty "voyage autour du monde". this book had much success and was re-published through several decades with various titles. having been given a challenge many years later by a lady at a social dinner, he then published "voyage autour du monde, sans la lettre a" ("voyage around the world, without the letter a"), later known as "curieux voyage autour du monde", in 1853, where he tells of his round trip lipogrammatically, that is, without once using the letter "a". the lady replied with a letter without the letter c.