* 1914: Modern swimfins are invented by the Frenchman Louis de Corlieu, capitaine de corvette ( Lieutenant Commander ) in the French Navy.

The governor was supported by various officers, in particular his deputy, the lieutenant de roi, or lieutenant of the king, who was responsible for general security and the protection of state secrets ; the major, responsible for managing the Bastille's financial affairs and the police archives ; and the capitaine des portes, who ran the entrance to the Bastille.

" In his voluntary retirement he carried with him the esteem of all parties: Jules Simon, who did not love him, and whom he did not love, afterwards called him " a great captain, a great citizen, and a righteous man " ( un grand capitaine, un grand citoyen et un homme de bien ).

The book he referred to was Mémoires de M. d ' Artagnan, capitaine lieutenant de la première compagnie des Mousquetaires du Roi ( Memoirs of Mister d ' Artagnan, Lieutenant Captain of the first company of the King's Musketeers ) by Gatien de Courtilz de Sandras ( Cologne, 1700 ).

In 1778, he distinguished himself at the siege of Pondicherry, earning the rank of capitaine de brûlot ( fireship captain ).

Promoted to capitaine de vaisseau in 1792, he was given the command of a ship-of-the-line, Trajan.

Mémoires de très noble et très illustre Gaspard de Saulx, seigneur de Tavanes, Mareschal de France, admiral des mers de Levant, Gouverneur de Provence, conseiller du Roy, et capitaine de cent hommes d ' armes.

He was promoted " capitaine de vaisseau ", or post captain, in May 1756.

The author, Alexandre Dumas, père, based his work on the book Mémoires de Monsieur d ' Artagnan, capitaine lieutenant de la première compagnie des Mousquetaires du Roi ( Memoirs of Mister d ' Artagnan, Lieutenant Captain of the first company of the King's Musketeers ) by Gatien de Courtilz de Sandras ( Cologne, 1700 ).

Modern swimfins are an invention from the Frenchman Louis de Corlieu, capitaine de corvette ( Lieutenant Commander ) in the French Navy.

Promoted to capitaine de vaisseau in January 1792, he received the command of the ship Centaure in Admiral Truguet's squadron.

However, in the French Navy commandant is the style, but not the rank, of the senior officers, specifically capitaine de corvette, capitaine de frégate and capitaine de vaisseau.

Promoted to capitaine de corvette ( lieutenant commander ) on 1 October 1940, he joined the Second Office of the Free French Naval Forces and requested to be sent to occupied France.

He was promoted to the rank of capitaine de frégate in June 1870 and served as second officer on the ironclad corvette Thétis with the French Baltic Squadron during the Franco-Prussian War.

Kieffer, recently promoted to capitaine de corvette, led his men personally.

The capitaine de corvette Thierry d ' Argenlieu suggested the adoption of the Cross of Lorraine as the symbol of the Free French.

In September 1939, d ' Argenlieu was mobilised as a reserve Navy officer, rising to the rank of capitaine de corvette in 1940.

" Lieutenant " is the form of address for an enseigne de vaisseau, " capitaine " for a lieutenant de vaisseau and " commandant " for a capitaine de corvette, frégate or vaisseau.

Observations sur l ’ anthropologie, ou l ’ Histoire naturelle de l ’ homme, la nécessité de s ’ occuper de l ’ avancement de cette science, et l ’ importance de l ’ admission sur la Flotte du capitaine Baudin d ’ un ou de plusieurs Naturalistes, spécialement chargés des Recherches à faire sur cet objet, Stoupe, Paris, an VIII.

In the Royal Canadian Navy, the appointment of coxswain ( or capitaine d ' armes in French ) is given to the senior non-commissioned officer aboard a ship, the equivalent to a command master chief petty officer in the US Navy.

* L ' Honneur d ' un capitaine ( 1982 )

Born in Nancy, Meurthe-et-Moselle, France, Tissot was trained as an engineer in the French Army, from which he graduated as capitaine du génie.

A company of marines was usually composed of 45 to 65 soldiers, two sergeants, two corporals and one drummer, overseen by a capitaine.

In 1790, he was promoted captain ( capitaine de vaisseau ) and received the command of the Audacieux ( 80 ) in the first great fleet collected by the Republic.

In 1501 Philip appointed him capitaine et maistre de nos postes, his nephew John Baptist was elevated to a Postmaster General ( chief et maistre general de noz postes par tous noz royaumes, pays et seigneuries ) by Emperor Charles V in 1520.

In September 1792, he was elected deputy for Corsica at the Convention, and promoted to captain ( capitaine de vaisseau ) in January 1793.

Philippe Kieffer ( 24 October 1899 – 20 November 1962 ), capitaine de frégate in the French Navy, was a French officer and political personality, and a hero of the Free French Forces.

He was promoted to capitaine de frégate in 1954.

He was promoted to capitaine de vaisseau in June 1781.

The title " général " originates in the ancient rank of " capitaine général " ( literally, " general captain "), who was in command of the whole army.

D ' Argenlieu was made a capitaine de vaisseau, and chancellor of the newly created Ordre de la Libération.

During the events he had preserved a distance from the plot but had stood at the ready at Orléans, le capitaine muet, the " silent captain " of the plotters ' correspondence.

Equivalent positions also exist in Canada, where a Queen's Harbourmaster is known in French as capitaine de port de Sa Majesté ( literally " Her Majesty's Captain of the Port ").

Capitaine de corvette Thierry d ' Argenlieu suggested the adoption of the Cross of Lorraine as a symbol of the Free French, both to recall the perseverance of Joan of Arc, whose symbol it had been, and as an answer to the Nazi swastika.

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During World War II, Capitaine de corvette Thierry d ' Argenlieu suggested the Cross of Lorraine as the symbol of the Free French Forces led by Charles de Gaulle as an answer to the Nazi swastika.

* Journal de la navigation autour du globe, de la frégate La Thétis et de la corvette L ' Espérance, pendant les années 1824, 1825 et 1826: publié par ordre du roi sous les auspices du Département de la marine par baron de Bougainville. Paris: A. Bertrand, 1837.

After finally returning to Kronstadt Litke published an 3-volume account of his explorations with atlases in Russian and in French, the latter being published in Paris and entitled Voyage autour du monde,: exécuté par ordre de sa majesté l ’ empereur Nicolas Ier, sur la corvette Le Séniavine, dans les années 1826, 1827, 1828 et 1829, par Frédéric Lutké, ... commandant de l ’ expédition.

The French admiral the Bailli de Suffren was dispatched on a mission to provide military assistance to French colonies in India, leading a fleet of five ships of the line, seven transports, and a corvette to escort the transports from Brest in March 1781.

Besides these, 99 sailors died in the sinking of the Vital de Oliveira when she was attacked by German submarines, in addition to some 350 deaths in accidents that resulted in the sinking of the corvette Camaquã on July 21, 1944.

File: Julio de Noronha-V32. jpg | Brazilian Navy corvette Julio de Noronha.

In the French Forces, field officers are known as Commandant, Lieutenant-colonel and Colonel ( Capitaine de corvette, Capitaine de frégate and Capitaine de vaisseau in the naval forces ).