Lieutenant Général des Armées Navales François-Joseph Paul, marquis de Grasse Tilly, comte de Grasse ( 13 September 1722 – 11 January 1788 ) was a French admiral.

But, thanks to the orderly fashion in which his own subordinate squadron-commanders dealt with the crisis, especially the third-in-command François-Joseph Paul, Comte de Grasse-Tilly's rapid closing-up of the battle-line, de Guichen managed to extricate himself from a difficult situation and, instead turn the Battle of Martiniquea narrow defeat to a drawn battle, although his and Marquis de Bouillé's objective to attack and seize Jamaica were cancelled.

* Ferdinande de Lesseps ( Paris, 3 December 1872-Paris, 4 May 1948 ), married firstly in Paris on 10 May 1890 to Ferdinand de Gontaut-Biron ( Paris, 11 November 1868-Château de Kimpempois, 6 December 1898 ), of the Marquesses of Saint-Blacard, by whom she had a son Ferdinand de Gontaut-Biron ( Paris, 25 January 1892-Paris, 2 February 1892 ), and married secondly François-Joseph de Cassagne de Beaufort, Marquis de Miramon ( 1867 – 1932 )

Nineteenth-century musicologist François-Joseph Fétis claimed to have seen a sixteenth-century copy of a Tractatus de musica mensurata et de proportionibus by Dufay, last seen in a bookshop in London in 1824.

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François-Joseph Fétis has called him " le Beethoven de la guitare ", though he has also remarked the Sor had failed to produce a good tone on one occasion.

The poem was very popular in the eighteenth century and translated several times: for example, Jean-Pierre de Bougainville translated it into French prose in 1749, and François-Joseph Bérardier de Bataut translated it in French verse in 1786.

Fétis considered Le Jeu de Robin et Marion and Le Jeu de la feuillée forerunners of the comic opera .< ref > François-Joseph Fétis, Revue Musicale 1. 1, 1827.

The style was supposed to have been introduced by the actor François-Joseph Talma, who upstaged his wigged co-actors by appearing in productions of works such as Voltaire's Brutus.

L ' Africaine was eventually premiered after Meyerbeer's death at the Salle Le Peletier on 28 April 1865 in a performing edition undertaken by François-Joseph Fétis.

François-Joseph Fétis ( 25 March 1784 – 26 March 1871 ) was a Belgian musicologist, composer, critic and teacher.

François-Joseph Gossec ( January 17, 1734 – February 16, 1829 ) was a French composer of operas, string quartets, symphonies, and choral works.

During her long life, Stéphanie was an extensive traveller, especially in Africa, where her brother François-Joseph lived in Kenya, and also in South America, particularly in Argentina.

A friend of the La Mettrie family, François-Joseph Hunauld, who was about to take the chair of anatomy at the Jardin du Roi, seems to have influenced him in this decision.

His father, Nicolas Robert, was in the service of François-Joseph de Choiseul, marquis de Stainville a leading diplomat from Lorraine.

Thérésa died in Chimay, where she was interred with François-Joseph de Riquet under the sacristy of the local church where a memorial stands to her memory.

Hérold was born in Paris, the only child of François-Joseph Hérold, a pianist and composer, and Jeanne-Gabrielle Pascal.

François-Joseph Fétis, a 19th century musicologist, claimed Gigault was born in Clayes-en-Brie, a village near Paris.

At the Académie he was a favourite pupil of the government architect François-Joseph Bélanger, who employed him in the construction of one of the first cast-iron constructions in France, the cast-iron and glass dome of the grain market, Halle au Blé ( 1808 – 13 ); in 1814 Bélanger appointed him his principal inspector on construction sites.

He was also a pupil of François-Joseph Fétis.

He was a pupil of Belgian composer Charles Auguste de Bériot, studied composition under François-Joseph Fétis, and studied violin under Lambert Joseph Meerts.

François-Joseph Navez ( Charleroi, 1787 – Brussels, 1869 ) was a Belgian neo-classical painter.

* A sculpture by François-Joseph Bosio, La nymphe Salmacis, can be seen on display at the Louvre Museum in Paris.

Born in London, Cusins entered the Chapel Royal in his tenth year and studied music in Brussels under François-Joseph Fétis and later at the Royal Academy of Music ( RAM ) in London, under Cipriani Potter, William Sterndale Bennett, Charles Lucas and Prosper Sainton.

He then studied the violin under Pierre Baillot, and counterpoint and harmony under François-Joseph Fétis at the Paris Conservatoire.

While there, he also took musical theory with François-Joseph Fétis ( who later edited the periodical La Revue Musicale ).

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An example of another journal of the same time is the Revue musicale, which thrived on personal attacks, many against Berlioz himself from the pen of critic François-Joseph Fétis.

French actor François-Joseph Talma | Talma as Nero in Racine's Britannicus ( play ) | Britannicus.

Charles engaged the neoclassical architect François-Joseph Bélanger to design the building.

François-Joseph Gossec, by Antoine Vestier.

François-Joseph Gossec, by Antoine Vestier.

Its pediment, representing Religion and its attributes, is by François-Joseph Duret.

* The " Concert des Amateurs " is founded by François-Joseph Gossec.

* Death of Le Riche de La Pouplinière, patron of Jean-Philippe Rameau, Johann Stamitz and François-Joseph Gossec.

Admiral de Grasse defeated a British fleet at Chesapeake Bay while Jean-Baptiste Donatien de Vimeur, comte de Rochambeau and Gilbert du Motier, marquis de La Fayette joined American forces in defeating the British at Yorktown.

In four descending columns, from left to right: Maestrale class frigate | MM Maestrale ( F 570 ), FS De Grasse | De Grasse ( D 612 ); USS John C. Stennis | USS John C. Stennis ( CVN 74 ), FS Charles de Gaulle | Charles De Gaulle ( R 91 ), Surcouf ( F711 ) | Surcouf ( F 711 ); USS Port Royal ( CG-73 ) | USS Port Royal ( CG-73 ), HMS Ocean ( L12 ) | HMS Ocean ( L 12 ), USS John F. Kennedy ( CV 67 ) | USS John F. Kennedy ( CV 67 ), Hr.

* January 14 – François Joseph Paul, marquis de Grasetilly, comte de Grasse, French admiral ( b. 1722 )

* April 12 – Battle of the Saintes: A British fleet under Admiral Sir George Rodney defeats a French fleet under the Comte de Grasse in the West Indies.

The Battle of the Chesapeake, also known as the Battle of the Virginia Capes or simply the Battle of the Capes, was a crucial naval battle in the American War of Independence that took place near the mouth of Chesapeake Bay on 5 September 1781, between a British fleet led by Rear Admiral Sir Thomas Graves and a French fleet led by Rear Admiral François Joseph Paul, comte de Grasse.

Presented in July 1781 with the options of attacking British forces in either New York or Virginia, Admiral de Grasse opted for the latter, arriving at the Chesapeake at the end of August.

Upon learning that de Grasse had sailed from the West Indies for North America, and that French Admiral de Barras had also sailed from Newport, Rhode Island, Admiral Graves concluded that they were going to join forces at the Chesapeake.

For several days the two fleets sailed within view of each other, with de Grasse preferring to lure the British away from the bay, where de Barras was expected to arrive carrying vital siege equipment.

On 13 September de Grasse broke away from the British and returned to the Chesapeake, where de Barras had arrived.

Since either of these options would require the assistance of the French fleet then in the West Indies, a ship was dispatched to meet with French Rear Admiral François Joseph Paul, comte de Grasse who was expected at Cap-Français ( now known as Cap-Haïtien, Haiti ), outlining the possibilities and requesting his assistance.

Rochambeau, in a private note to de Grasse, indicated that his preference was for an operation against Virginia.

The two generals then moved their forces to White Plains, New York to study New York's defenses and await news from de Grasse.

François Joseph Paul de Grasse | François Joseph Paul, comte de Grasse, coloured engraving by Antoine Maurin

British Admiral George Brydges Rodney, who had been tracking de Grasse around the West Indies, was alerted to the latter's departure, but was uncertain of the French admiral's destination.