After the 1783 Treaty of Paris, Lapérouse was appointed in 1785 by Louis XVI and his Minister of the Marine, the Marquis de Castries, to lead an expedition around the world.

He was criticised for this by Marquis de Castries, who believed that most of the war's burdens had been on France, while most of the benefits went to her allies.

Born in Metz, where his father was director of the local mint, Barbé-Marbois tutored the children of the Marquis de Castries.

Lapérouse was appointed in 1785 by Louis XVI and his minister of marine, Charles Eugène Gabriel de La Croix, marquis de Castries, to lead an expedition around the world.

Arthur Lewis was born in Castries, Saint Lucia, then still a British territory in the Caribbean, as the fourth of five children of George and Ida Lewis, who had migrated from Antigua shortly after the turn of the century.

Du Fresne was given two ships, the Mascarin and the Marquis de Castries.

Dr. Julian Robert Hunte, OBE ( born 14 March 1940 in Castries ) was the foreign minister of Saint Lucia from April 2001 to 26 October 2004, when he was succeeded by Petrus Compton.

It was presented to her by the commander of Dien Bien Phu, General de Castries.

The bay was later named after the Frenchman Marion du Fresne, who arrived in his ship the " Mascarin " with the " Marquis de Castries " in March 1772.

Pache was born in Verdun, but grew up in Paris, of Swiss parentage, the son of the concièrge of the hotel of Marshal de Castries.

Odlum was born on 24 June 1934 in Castries, the son of a barber.

Odlum's funeral was held on 6 October, with a 30-vehicle procession travelling from Vieux Fort to Castries ; it was led by a pair of police outriders and a coach carrying the coffin, draped in the national flag.

The funeral itself was held in a park, due to no church in Castries being large enough to hold the number of mourners.

Other tributes came from Ralph Gonsalves, the Prime Minister of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, who described Odlum as " one of the region's finest political orators, who was persuasive, eloquent and was able to command attention universally, not only in his native capital city Castries but also at the United Nations, in Geneva, Cape Town or in London ".

The CARDICIS meeting of 2004 was held in Castries, St. Lucia, and brought together a diverse group of people involved in ICT throughout the Caribbean together.

He was very popular amongst his constituents and never lost the Castries Central seat during his political career.

He was first elected to the Castries City Council in 1952.

In 1958, Mallet was elected to the Saint Lucia Legislative Council to represent the constituency of Castries Central.

The FA was founded in 1979, the same year the island gained independence, and is headquartered in Castries, the nation's capital.

This book was primarily a book of occult theory ; De Castries preserved all of his actual methods for practicing megapolisomancy in a second book, which he referred to as his Grand Cipher or Fifty-Book.

In 1780, two candidates who had been supported by Marie Antoinette for positions, the marquis de Castries, and the comte de Ségur, were appointed Minister of the Navy and Minister of War, respectively.

Castries is served by George F. L. Charles Airport, also known as Vigie Airport.

On Saint Lucia, rough waves and a strong storm tide destroyed the fleet of British Admiral Rodney at Port Castries, with one ship destroying the city's hospital by being lifted on top of it.

According to De Castries, excessively large cities pose a clear danger to the people living in and near them by allowing mass quantities of certain substances ( city-stuff ) to accumulate, which in turn draw the attention of paramental forces.

De Castries even goes so far as to hint that practitioners could extend their own lives by predicting and manipulating the paramental forces present in cities, but only at a significant cost: " Since we modern city-men already dwell in tombs, inured after a fashion to mortality, the possibility arises of the indefinite prolongation of this life-in-death.

The key to Megapolisomancy apparently lies in the construction of the city itself, dependent upon such things as diagonal streets, fulcrums based on the placement of extremely tall buildings, and other geographical calculations, referred to by De Castries as Neo-Pythagorean metageometry, most of which De Castries did not include in Megapolisomancy, but rather in his mysterious Grand Cipher.

* July 29 – Christian de Castries, French general ( b. 1902 )

Common drinks made from Chambord include the Raspberry Margarita, French Manhattan, Butler Miller ( Chambord Vodka Gimlet ), Kir Imperial ( Chambord and Champagne ), Chambord Daiquiri, Chambord Royal Spritzer, Little Purple Men, The Purple Hooter Shooter, Sour Grapes, Black Opal, Peanut Butter and Jelly ( w / Frangelico or Castries Peanut Cream ), Grape Crush, French Martini ( which started the ' cocktails as a Martini ' craze ), and the " Blood of Christ ".

Christian Marie Ferdinand de la Croix de Castries ( 11 August 1902 – 29 July 1991 ) was the French commander at the Battle of Dien Bien Phu in 1954.

Venues used to host performances include Pigeon Point National Park (" Main Stage " & " Side Lawn "), Derek Walcott Square in central Castries (" Jazz on the Square "), The Great House, Fond D ' or Heritage Park, Rudy John Beach Park, Vieux Fort Square, Balenbouche Estate, Soufrière Waterfront ( the previous three events making up " Jazz in the South "), La Place Carenage (" Teatime Jazz "), Duty Free Pointe Seraphine (" Jazz on the Pier "), Rodney Bay Beachfront (" Jazz on the Beach "), Mindoo Phillip Park, Royal St. Lucian Hotel, Rodney Bay Marina and Gaiety on Rodney Bay.

His work in the 1974 election, along with his " good looks and charisma ", yielded a safe seat in Castries, which he allowed his brother to run for.

Castries has landmarks, such as the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception, Derek Walcott Square ( renamed from Columbus Square to honor the island's Nobel Prize-winning poet, Derek Walcott ), the City Library, the Government House, and Fort Charlotte, at the top of Morne Fortune ( an 845-foot hill ).

* Industry leaders: Michel Bon ( former CEO of Carrefour and France Telecom ), Jean-Marie Messier, Ernest-Antoine Seillière, Louis Schweitzer, Gérard Mestrallet, Louis Gallois, Henri de Castries, Baudouin Prot, Frederic Oudéa, Bruno Lafont, Frédéric Lemoine, Pierre-André de Chalendar ( CEO of Saint-Gobain ).

* Charles de La Croix, Marquis of Castries ( 1727 – 1801 ), Marshal of France since 13. 6. 1783

* George F. L. Charles Airport ( IATA code: SLU ) ( formerly Vigie Airport ), in Castries, Saint Lucia

As a member of the United Workers Party ( UWP ), Mallet represented the Castries Central district.

Lewis, a former director of the Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States ( OECS ), won the Castries Central seat and assumed the office of Prime Minister on April 2, 1996.

He first entered politics in 1967, serving as a councillor, and then as mayor of Castries from 1970 to 1971.

She was elected as a Member of Parliament in 1997 to represent the Castries Central constituency beating the then sitting Prime Minister, and was subsequently re-elected in 2001.

Southwell died of heart disease on 18 May 1979, less than one year after becoming Premier, in Castries, Saint Lucia during a meeting of the West Indies Associated States Council of Ministers.

George F. L. Charles Airport is located in Castries and handles inter-Caribbean flights.

The latest example can be found at Our Planet Centre in Castries, St Lucia, which opened in May 2011, where a life-size Prince Charles and Governor general of the island appear on stage talking about climate change.

** Castries ( George F. L. Charles Airport )

** Castries ( George F. L. Charles Airport )