Jean-Baptiste Labat

Jean-Baptiste Labat (sometimes called, simply, Père Labat) (1663 6 January 1738) was a French clergyman, botanist, writer, explorer, ethnographer, soldier, engineer, and landowner.

Jean-Baptiste Labat
Born1663
near Paris
Died6 January 1738
Paris
ChurchRoman Catholic
WritingsNouveau voyage aux iles de l'Amerique and Voyage du Chevalier Demarchais en Guinee, iles voisines, et a Cayenne, fait en 1725, 1726, et 1727
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