Bon Chrétien De Briqueville
Bon Chrétien de Briqueville (Bretteville, Manche, 2 October 1726—Valognes, 1 January 1803) was a French Navy officer. He served in the War of American Independence, earning membership in the Society of the Cincinnati, and was one of the prominent figures of the Académie de Marine. Biography Bricqueville was born to the family of Madeleine de la Motte de Pont-Roger and of Guillaume Antoine de Briqueville, and a distant relative of Vice-Admiral . He joined the Navy as a Garde-Marine in on 2 November 1743. He served on the 32-gun frigate French frigate Perle (1746), ''Perle'' and took part in Duc d'Anville expedition to Acadia under Jean-Baptiste Louis Frédéric de La Rochefoucauld de Roye, La Rochefoucauld. He served on the 64-gun French ship Lys (1747), ''Lys'' and was taken prisoner by the British after Action of 8 June 1755, and released in January 1756. Bricqueville was promoted to Lieutenant on 15 May 1756. He then supervised construction of the 12-gun corvette Fr ...
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Bretteville, Manche
Bretteville () is a commune in the Manche department in Normandy in northwestern France. Population See also * Communes of the Manche department The following is a list of the 446 Communes of France, communes of the Manche Departments of France, department of France. The communes cooperate in the following Communes of France#Intercommunality, intercommunalities (as of 2020):