FREZIER, Amedee Francois (frayzeeay), French military engineer, born in Chambery, France, in 1682; died in Brest, 26 October 1773. He was the son of a Scotch refugee who had fled to Savoy. Amedee was educated in Paris, and served as lieutenant of infantry from 1702 till 1707, when he entered the engineer corps. In 1712 the government sent him to examine the condition of the Spanish colonies in America. After visiting the principal points in Peru, Chili, and Brazil, he returned to Marseilles on 17 August He pointed out several mistakes in the "Relation" of Father Feuillee, and this led to a bitter controversy between the two travelers. Fr6zier introduced the large Chili strawberry into France.

In 1719 he was stationed at Santo Domingo as engineer-in-chief, and made a map of the island, to which he added a plan of the City of Santo Domingo. On his return, in 1728, he received the cross of St. Louis. He was appointed director of the fortifications of Brittany in 1739, and engaged in this work until 1764, when he was retired as a lieutenant colonel. In 1752 he was elected a member of the French academy. He published many scientific papers, and several works, including "Relation du voyage de la Mer du Sud, aux eStes du Chili, et du Peron, fair pendent les annees, 1712, 1713, et 1714:" (Paris, 1714 ; 2d ed., enlarged, 1732 ; Dutch translation, Amsterdam, 1718; German translation, Hamburg, 1718; English translation, with a supplement by Edmund Halley, London, 1718). His " Reponse au P. Feuillee" was added to the Paris edition of 1832. He also published a " Lettre concernant l'histoire des trembiements de terre de Lima "(1755).