Jean-François de Galaup, Comte de La Pérouse, by Genevieve Brossard de Beaulieu (1778) On the morning of January 24 1788, two French frigates, the Astrolabe and La Boussole, stood in towards the sheer cliffs of New Holland and made their way along the coast to Botany Bay. There, on the far side of the … Continue reading An Introduction to the Sea: Jean-François de La Pérouse’s First Port-of-Call