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- 1750 is a French naval officer of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. He served under the reigns of Louis XIV and Louis XV and ended his military career with the rank of vice-admiral commander of the Levantine fleet.
He becomes assistant-major on May 20 of the following year. He joined the corps of naval officers as a lieutenant in 1691 and was promoted captain of the frigate in 1693. In 1696 he became the master of an enemy frigate, 4 and in the same year he received a certificate as captain of the ship. On this occasion he commanded the Rubis, a 56-gun line vessel, in the vanguard commanded by the Vice Admiral, the Marquis de Villette-Mursay.
In 1730, he was promoted to Lieutenant-General of the Naval Forces and appointed Navy Commander in Toulon the following year. He arrived in this city in December 1737 and took his command in early 1738, the bailiff of Vastan who exercised then being his junior in the Navy.
He was commander of the royal and military order of Saint-Louis on January 1, 1745, and received a pension of 4,000 livres.
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