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Given the chaos of the February Revolution in France, who would have had the authority (and hopefully reason) to order a French corvette to embark on an almost 2-year mission around the Pacific to find and transfer the son of a minor French noble from one whaling ship to another?

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Given the chaos of the February Revolution in France, who would have had the authority (and hopefully reason) to order a French corvette to embark on an almost 2-year mission around the Pacific to find and transfer the son of a minor French noble from one whaling ship to another?	483