Born at Neuilly-sur-Seine near Paris on July 15, 1867, Jean Baptiste was the son of the illustrious French neurologist, Jean Martin Charcot. From his earliest years, young Charcot was attracted ...

“We started with a crazy project to take people on the path of the French polar explorer Captain Jean-Baptiste Charcot, going where no other vessel is capable of going,” says Mathieu Petiteau ...

The ship is named for Captain Jean-Baptiste Charcot, who made several Arctic and Antarctic voyages of discovery between 1902 and 1909. Ponant polar ship to be called Le Commandant Charcot: Travel ...

It was named by the expedition’s leader, Jean-Baptiste Charcot, for Baron Edouard de Rothschild, then the head of the du Rothschild Brothers Bank, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.

The vessel will bear the name of a great French explorer: Le Commandant Charcot. An explorer by vocation with a true passion for sailing, Jean-Baptiste Charcot is one of the emblematic figures of ...

So we’ve set off from Reykjavík, Iceland, across the Denmark Strait, in whose tricky waters Jean-Baptiste Charcot’s ship, the Pourquoi-Pas, was wrecked in 1936, taking the captain down with ...