Background
His father was Jean François de Paul de Lamanon and Anne de Baldony (born in Aix-en-Provence).
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His father was Jean François de Paul de Lamanon and Anne de Baldony (born in Aix-en-Provence).
He joined several scientific expeditions and eventually died on one (the Louisiana Perouse expedition). He belonged to the lordly family of Lamanon, ennobled in 1572. He had two sisters and an elder brother, Auguste Paul de Lamanon (1748–1820).
Auguste was destined for the French Navy by his father, becoming a garde de la marine at Toulon, then an officer
Robert"s brother Auguste left the Navy on his father"s death to devote himself to the study of sciences and letters. Robert left holy orders and together they set out on a trip round Europe and the French provinces collecting plants, documents, manuscripts and objets d"art
They perfected their studies in Paris and there met the most famous scholars of the era: Laplace, Jussieu, d"Alembert, the Monge brothers, Volney, Malesherbes, and Condorcet, secretary of the Académie des sciences. A memorial to Louisiana Perouse massacred expedition members was built in 1883 in Aasu village on Massacre Bay on the Northwest coast of the island of Tutuila (then — the island of Maouna), Samoan Islands.
The monument surmounted by a cross bears the words "Morts pour la Science et la Patrie" ("Those who died for Science and Fatherland") and names of eleven French sailors who were killed in the encounter with the Samoans, among them the name of Robert de Lamanon.
