Each member of the class has been allocated the name of a famous French explorer, and Le Bougainville is named after Louis Antoine de Bougainville, a French admiral and explorer.

By October 2018, she was ready to be transferred to the builder's Søviknes facility in Ålesund, Norway, for final outfitting.

[3] She was delivered to Ponant in Norway in early April 2019.

[6] Media related to IMO 9814040 at Wikimedia Commons

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