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SPEAKER_01: and this is Encyclopedia Wamanica. Welcome to a brand new month and therefore a brand new theme. All April, we're gonna be talking about explorers and contenders. Women who veered outside of prescribed gender norms to accomplish feats in fields strongly associated with men. These women literally discovered new people and discovered new people. They literally discovered new paths and or participated in incredible athletic endeavors. I personally find this group inspiring, especially at this moment when many of us are stuck indoors.
SPEAKER_01: Today's explorer made history. Despite having to hide her identity, she sailed the world identifying previously unknown plants and the first woman to circumnavigate the globe. Meet Jeanne Barret. Jeanne was born on July 27th, 1740 to a poor family in the Burgundy region of France. Some accounts say that her father was a day laborer in the fields. From an early age, Jeanne was interested in the nature around her. She learned to identify plants and their medicinal properties, garnering a reputation for such knowledge and attracting the attention of a man of higher social status, Dr. Philibert Comerson. While Jeanne was known as an herb woman, Philibert was a nobleman and trained botanist. In any event, both were plant experts and shared a professional and personal bond that evolved into a partnership. Philibert was asked to join a French expedition planning to sail around the world from 1766 to 1769 as the trip's botanist. He brought Jeanne along as his assistant. It was the opportunity of a lifetime, but not without risk. Women were not allowed on French Navy ships, so Jeanne was forced to hide her gender and dress as a man. For the duration of her time on the ship, she would present as a man and would go by the typical men's name, which sounds very similar but is spelled differently, Jeanne. The expedition sailed across the Atlantic and around the southern tip of South America. Along the way, Jeanne and Philibert collected plants from places like Uruguay and Brazil. They encountered more than 70 different kinds of unfamiliar plants and named one such plant after the leader of the expedition. To this day, that particular much-loved vine with bright pink and purple flowers is known as Bucanvillea. Jeanne successfully hid her gender all the way until her ship reached Tahiti in 1767. There had been a bit of suspicion around her identity at first, as she would never undress or use the bathroom in front of other men. But Jeanne made up a story that she'd been castrated, and that seemed to appease the curious. It's unclear exactly how Jeanne's real identity was discovered and exactly what followed. Some say that it was locals in Tahiti who unearthed the truth. Once outed, Jeanne's ship was immediately a less hospitable place, perhaps even a violent one for her, and Jeanne and Philibert left the expedition when it reached the French colony of Mauritius. The couple lived in Mauritius until Philibert died in 1773. Jeanne had previously had at least one and perhaps two children whom she had placed for adoption. While living in Mauritius, she had another child and did the same. A year after Philibert's death in 1774, Jeanne married a French soldier. The couple moved back to France, finishing Jeanne's circle around the globe and making her the first woman to ever complete that feat in late 1774 or early 1775. Jeanne's accomplishments in the field of botany have not always been recognized. The plants discovered on the 1760s expedition were credited to Philibert. Still, upon Jeanne's return to France, she received a pension for her contributions. Jeanne died on August 5th, 1807. She was 67 years old.
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