ENTRECASTEAUX, Joseph Antoine Bruni d', French navigator: b. Aix 1739; d. at sea, near the island of Java, 20 July 1793. He entered the French naval serv ice in 1754, gradually rose to the position of commandant of the French fleet in the East Indies (1786), and in 1787 became governor of Mauritius and the Isle of Bourbon. In the same year he made a voyage to China. In 1791 he was sent by the French government in search of La Perouse (q.v.), who had not been heard from since February 1788. For this pur pose he was given the command of two ships, the Recherche and L'Esperance. He failed in detecting any trace of the lost navigator, but ascertained with great exactness the outlines of New Caledonia, the west and southwest coast of New Holland, Tasmania and various other coasts. The D'Entrecasteaux Archipelago was named in his honor. Other reminders of his visit to Tasmania are D'Entrecasteaux Channel, Bruni Island, Recherche Bay, Port Esperance, all names given by him to these various localities and still in use to-day. The journal of this
voyage has been edited by de Rossel, 'Voyage de Dentrecasteaux' (2 vols., Paris 1808). His maps and other topographical drawings have been published as 'Atlas du Voyage de Bruny (Paris 1807). Consult Cor dier, H., 'La Mission de M. le Chevalier d'Entrecasteaux a Canton en 1787' (Paris 1911) •, Goepp, E., and Cordier, E. L., 'Les Grands Hommes de la France: Navigateurs' (Paris 1873) ; Labillardiere, J. J. H. de, 'Rela tion du Voyage a la Recherche de la (2 vols., Paris 1800), and its translation into English, 'Voyage in Search of la Perouse) (2 vols., London 1800) ; Marriott, I. L, 'Commo dore Sir John Hayes, His Voyage and Life' (London 1912).