La Boussole

• Bed 180x200 cm
• Wardrobe storage
• Bathroom and private toilets
• Hair dryer
• Cosmetic products
• Bathrobes
• Mules
• Kettle with tea, coffee, infusions
• Free wifi

N.B / The bedroom has a blackout roof window.

In the 18th Century, the french king, Louis XVI, was interested in travel undertaken by the Bristish. The king confided to the count of La Pérouse the management of a circumnavigation trip.

La Boussole and l’Astrolabe, are two frigates choosen for the expedition under the command of the captain La Pérouse. The both frigate left from Brest on August 1st 1785. They easily rossed the Cap Horn and arrived at Concepción Bay on Feb 23rd 1786, La pérouse is anchored there til March 17th.

On april 9th, La Pérouse made a stopover at « Easter Island » and inthe Sandwich Islands (Hawaï) where he discovered Maui Island. On June 23rd, the frigates arrived at the Canada / Alaska coast. Then the captain sailed along the west coast  of America. On Sept 14th he arrived in Monterey (California) helped by the spanish. Crossing the pacific sea from east to west, he entered in Macao, China, on Jan 3rd 1787 then on Feb  26 in the Manilla Bay before saling to the north.

Frist European browser to enter in China and Japan area, La Pérouse discovered the strait of Yeso (Hokkaido Japan) and Sakhalin (Russia) (that carries his name).

Captain La Perouse then goes to Central Pacific sea. On Dec 9th 1787 arrived in Maouna (Samoa Islands)his botanist Robert de Lamanon and twelve ship members are massacred when there were looking for water. The he continued to the Tonga Islands and in Jan 26th in Botany Bay (Australia).  On March 15th he left for the north east. Taken in a cyclone, the two frigates broke and disappeared near the Island Santa Crus (Salomon Islands) in mid June 1788.