Vice-Admiral Louis-René Madelaine Le Vassor, comte de Latouche-Tréville was a French Navy officer and politician who served in the American Revolutionary War and the French Revolutionary and Napoleoni
Portrait by Georges Rouget, 1840
Naval battle of Louisbourg, 21 July 1781, by Auguste-Louis de Rossel de Cercy
Letter by Latouche-Tréville
An illustration of the raid on Boulogne
Chef d'escadre Jean François de Galaup, comte de Lapérouse was a French Navy officer and explorer. Having enlisted in the Navy at the age of 15, he had a successful career and in 1785 was appointed to
Portrait by Geneviève Brossard de Beaulieu, 1778
Louis XVI, seated at right, giving Lapérouse his instructions on 29 June 1785. Louis XVI Giving His Instructions to La Pérouse by Nicolas-André Monsiau (1817). (Château de Versailles)
Easter Island in 1786