baron Daniel Lescallier

Daniel Lescallier was born in Lyon on November 4, 1743, and died in Paris on May 14, 1822. French reference sources describe him as a maritime administrator and colonial official who served in several high-level posts, including governor, colonial prefect, maritime prefect, and consul general. He also held the title of baron.

His career took him across the French Atlantic and Indian Ocean worlds. Accounts of his life note service connected with Saint-Domingue, Grenada, Dutch Guiana, French Guiana, the Isle de France and Bourbon, and later maritime work in Corfu. That range gives a sense of how closely his work was tied to the naval and colonial machinery of late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century France.

Lescallier was also a substantial man of letters. The Bibliothèque nationale de France lists more than a hundred resources connected to him, including textual and iconographic works. He is associated with maritime writing, translation, and illustrated material, which helps explain why he appears not only in political and colonial history, but also in the history of nautical knowledge and publishing.