Amédée-François Frézier Amédée-François Frézier Amédée-François Frézier (1682 – October 26, 1773) was a French military engineer, mathematician, spy, and explorer who is best remembered for bringing back five specimens of "Fragaria chiloensis", the beach strawberry, from an assignment in South America, thus introducing this New World fruit to the Old. As described by G.M. Darrow, Frézier's ancient surname was derived from "fraise", the French word for strawberry. A story relates the surname is derived from the fact that Julius de Berry, a citizen of Anvers (i.e. Antwerp), was knighted by Charles the Simple in 916 for a timely gift of ripe strawberries.
Bizarre Fruit Bizarre Fruit Bizarre Fruit is the third album by the British dance band M People. It was released on 14 November 1994 and charted and peaked at number 4, spending one year on the chart before an expanded version of the album, "Bizarre Fruit II", was released a year later. This album sold over 900,000 copies in the UK and was certified 3× Platinum. In 1996 it was announced that "Bizarre Fruit" had reached 1.1 million copies sold worldwide. The album's two most popular singles were "Sight for Sore Eyes", which reached No. 6 in the UK Singles Chart and