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The voyage of the sheep from Tibet: animal breeding in the 18th-century French Empire

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In 1766, the naturalist Louis Jean-Marie Daubenton was commissioned by the French state to conduct breeding experiments to improve the French sheep population. With his country’s colonial network put at his disposal, he received live sheep from England, Spain, Morocco and, most spectacularly, Tibet. While colonial botany has received much well-deserved attention in recent scholarship, we know considerably less about the role of animal breeding in colonial natural history. By focusing on the voyage of the sheep brought from Tibet to France, this paper explores the animal side of science and empire.

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