Comte de la Pérouse

Le Comte de la Pérouse (the Count of Pérouse), was a Frenchman who Sir Edward Howe cited as another European expert on oriental dragon breeds. The count published his journals documenting his interactions with dragons in parts of Asia. Pérouse was one of the first Europeans to meet a dragon of the Imperial breed: the one he met having been in the court of the Korean monarch. Sir Edward Howe provided Laurence a copy of the count's journal after first mistakenly-identifying Temeraire as an Imperial (breed) dragon.