French sailor. Wing commander in 1779, he participated in the American Revolutionary War, contributing to the victory at Yorktown in 1781. This success made him named lieutenant general. But he was defeated and taken prisoner in 1782 near Dominica.
Meeting with Thibault Gandouly, history-geography teacher in a high school in the Oise. Originally from Toulouse, he was passionate about Napoleon III, the Second Empire and Bonapartism under the Third Republic. For his first biography, released this month by Via Romana editions, he chose the very l