#OnThisDay in #history - in 1740 Jeanne Baret was born in #France - she was the first known woman to circumnavigate the globe. Jeanne accompanied her partner, Philibert Commerson, on a sea voyage in 1766 to Tahiti, and acted as his valet and assistant. To do so, she dressed as a man, assumed the name "Jean", and claimed she was a eunuch. After Commerson's death, she ran a tavern in Mauritius and eventually returned to France, which finished her trip around the Earth. #OTD@histodons#histodons
