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Éléonor Jacques Marie Stanislas Perier De Salvert
Éléonor Jacques Marie Stanislas Perier de Salvert (17481783) was a lieutenant de vaisseau in the French Navy. Biography Éléonor Jacques Marie Stanislas Perier de Salvert was a member of the de Perier family. He was the son of Antoine Alexis Perier de Salvert and Angélique Aimée Rosalie de Laduz de Vieuxchamps.: "Eléonore Jacques Marie Perier de Salvert", born in Brest on 14 November 1748 of "Alexis Périer de Salvert", chef d'escadre des armées navales ... and Angélique La Duz de Vieuxchant. He joined the Navy as a Garde-Marine on 5 April 1762, and was promoted to Lieutenant on 14 February 1778. In 1772, he was captain of the 4-gun cutter ''Furet''. In 1776, he was at Isle de France (Mauritius), Isle de France (Mauritius). He served under Jean-Baptiste François Lollivier de Tronjoly on the 64-gun ''French ship Brillant (1774), Brillant'' from 20 August to 3 September 1778, when he transferred to the frigate French frigate Pourvoyeuse (1772), ''Pourvoyeuse'' as Lou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brest, France
Brest (; ) is a port city in the Finistère department, Brittany. Located in a sheltered bay not far from the western tip of the peninsula, and the western extremity of metropolitan France, Brest is an important harbour and the second French military port after Toulon. The city is located on the western edge of continental France. With 142,722 inhabitants in a 2007 census, Brest forms Western Brittany's largest metropolitan area (with a population of 300,300 in total), ranking third behind only Nantes and Rennes in the whole of historic Brittany, and the 19th most populous city in France; moreover, Brest provides services to the one million inhabitants of Western Brittany. Although Brest is by far the largest city in Finistère, the ''préfecture'' (regional capital) of the department is the much smaller Quimper. During the Middle Ages, the history of Brest was the history of its castle. Then Richelieu made it a military harbour in 1631. Brest grew around its arsenal unti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
