• Saint Michel was a 64-gun ship of the line of the French Navy, lead ship of her class. Built for the Crown, Saint Michel was originally manned by officers...
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    under the same name, sold 1772 Saint Michel class. Designed by Jean-Marie Hélie. Saint Michel 64 (launched January 1741 at Brest) – condemned 1786. Vigilant...
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    de Saint-Jean was named in his honour. Four ships of the French Navy have been named in his honour : an ironclad which took part in the Sino-French War...
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    Galaup, comte de Lapérouse (23 August 1741 – 1788) was a French Navy officer and explorer. Having enlisted in the French navy at the age of 15, he had a successful...
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  • him. He found living on shore too boring so returned to his ship. Michel returned to France, and by 1745 had made La Rochelle his home port. He offered...
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    him Navarro had been joined by a French squadron under Claude-Élisée de Court de La Bruyère (December 1741). The French admiral told Haddock that he would...
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  • list of ship launches in 1741 includes a chronological list of some ships launched in 1741. "French Fourth Rate ship of the line 'L'Auguste' (1741)". Threedecks...
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    landing in Cornwall for the planned French Invasion of Britain. The French fleet was intercepted by the English ships under Admiral Hawke on 20 November...
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  • accident (born 1778) 18 July - Barthélemy Faujas de Saint-Fond, geologist and traveller (born 1741) 1 August - Pierre-Adrien Pâris, architect, painter...
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  • commanded a 4-ship division escorting a 120-ship convoy returning to France, also comprising the 80-gun Saint-Esprit, under Chabert-Cogolin. He was promoted...
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  • HMS Sapphire (1758) (category 1758 ships)
    Her fate is then unknown. "British Fifth Rate ship of the line 'Sapphire' (1741)". "John Carter Allen". "French Privateer 'Le Saint Claude' (1761)"....
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    Jean d'Estrées, Count of Estrées (category 17th-century French military personnel)
    d'Estrées (?-1723), nun in Paris. Marie Anne Catherine d'Estrées (1663-1741) married Michel François Le Tellier, Marquis of Courtanvaux, son of the Marquis of...
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    2014. List of French steam frigates List of French modern frigates List of French current frigates List of ships of the line of France Demerliac (1996)...
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  • François-Josué de La Corne Dubreuil (category People of New France)
    of Saint Louis. He was survived by his only child, François-Michel, who probably drowned with his uncle Louis de La Corne in the sinking of the ship Auguste...
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    a French convoy from Les Cayes off Môle-Saint-Nicolas, capturing one ship although the other escaped. Two days later an independently sailing French frigate...
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    Johnston notes that in 1767, French authorities forcibly removed nearly 800 Acadian and French inhabitants from Saint-Pierre and Miquelon, transporting...
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    2024 Summer Olympics opening ceremony (category Articles containing French-language text)
    Mezzo-soprano Axelle Saint-Cirel, representing the national personification of the French Marianne, then sang the French national anthem in a French flag-themed...
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    Jean Frédéric Phélypeaux, Count of Maurepas (category Members of the French Academy of Sciences)
    following years he acquired budgets of 20 million livres in 1740, 26 million in 1741 and 27 million in 1742. Over his career as administrator he held the positions...
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    Jean-Baptiste Mac Nemara (category Commanders of the Order of Saint Louis)
    — Rochefort, 18 October 1756) was a French Navy officer of Irish origin. Mac Nemara was born to Catherine Saint-Jean and to Jean Mac Nemara, an Irish...
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    Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne de Bienville (category Pages with French IPA)
    Sieur de Bienville, was a French-Canadian colonial administrator in New France. Born in Montreal, he was an early governor of French Louisiana, appointed four...
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  • 1690s (category CS1 French-language sources (fr))
    (1737-1741) (d. 1751) June 14 – Johann Friedrich Walther, German teacher, organist and draughtsman (d. 1776) June 17 – Henri-Michel Guedier de Saint-Aubin...
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    (1737-1741) (d. 1751) June 14 – Johann Friedrich Walther, German teacher, organist and draughtsman (d. 1776) June 17 – Henri-Michel Guedier de Saint-Aubin...
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    Lloyd's underwriter. Ivan VI of Russia (1740–1764), Emperor of Russia, 1740–1741. Ivan Lepyokhin (1740–1802), naturalist, zoologist, botanist and explorer...
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    Ferdinand Walsin Esterhazy (category CS1 French-language sources (fr))
    was the illegitimate son of Countess Marie Anne Esterhazy de Galántha (1741–1823), by her affair with Jean André César de Ginestous (1725–1810), governor...
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    body of Saint Mark the Evangelist was smuggled from Alexandria, Egypt, to Venice. When the ship reached Olivolo island in Venice, the saint made signs...
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    Bering, Danish-born Russian explorer (d. 1741) September 11 – Johann Gottlieb Heineccius, German jurist (d. 1741) September 28 – Johann Mattheson, German...
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    Diogo de Gouveia (category Portuguese expatriates in France)
    Standonck to King Manuel I as compensation for an attack by French privateers on a Portuguese ship. He studied at the University of Paris, where he became...
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  • François-Aymar de Monteil (category CS1 French-language sources (fr))
    Onésime-Joachim (1867). Batailles navales de la France (in French). Vol. 2. Challamel ainé. Vergé-Franceschi, Michel (2002). Dictionnaire d'Histoire maritime...
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    Marot (fl. 1590–1650) – French surgeon and ship's captain. Philippe Mius d'Entremont – lieutenant-major under Charles de Saint-Étienne de la Tour, who...
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    Marseille (redirect from Marseille, France)
    Toulon (A50) and the French Riviera It is the most populous city in the French Riviera(A8) to the east. Gare de Marseille Saint-Charles is Marseille's...
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