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TIL Jeanne Barret, expert botanist, was the first woman to have completed a voyage of circumnavigation of the globe. She enlisted in Bougainville expedition (1766-1769) disguised as a man and supposedly as her boyfriend's valet, the botanist Philibert Commerson

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