Governor of the Bastille he wrote to the Lieutenant-General of Police: "The head of Monsieur La Riviere is always heated and I begin to despair that his poor head may not heal without the remedy ... With profound respect ... " On the sidelines the magistrate wrote: "To hang" Bernard-Rene Jourdan de Launay was the last Governor of the Bastille and took his post in October 1776. He paid Jumilhac 300,000 livres for his post as governor. The Marquis de Launay was born in the Bastille in 1740. His father, René Jourdan de Launay, had already been governor for twelve years and died there
French ship Indomptable (1789) Around 150 men survived the wreck, including just two of the twenty-four officers on board. The French Navy did not record precise crew numbers aboard "Indomptable" at the commencement of the Trafalgar engagement, nor was a tally made of the number of sailors rescued from "Bucentaure": the figures of between 1,000 and 1,400 are taken from reports of contemporary observers. The estimate of 150 survivors was made by Captain Pernot, whose regiment provided "Indomptable"s marines. French ship Indomptable (1789) Indomptable ("Indomitable") was an "Tonnant"-class 80-gun ship of the line in the French Navy, laid down in 1788 and in active