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Antoine-Jean-Marie Thévenard

Antoine-Jean-Marie Thévenard

Antoine Jean Marie Thévenard, comte de Thévenard (French pronunciation:; 7 December 1733 – 9 February 1815) was a French politician and vice admiral. He served in the French ruling regimes of Louis XVI, those of the Revolution, Napoleon and Louis XVIII; he was made a count in 1810 and given a seat in the Senate, which he retained in the Chamber of Peers in 1814. He is buried at the Panthéon in Paris.

His son Capitaine de vaisseauAntoine René Thévenard was killed at the Battle of the Nile whilst commanding the 74-gun Aquilon. Thevenard Island off the coast of Western Australia bears his name.