Bernard-René Jourdan de Launay Bernard-René Jourdan de Launay Bernard René Jourdan, marquis de Launay (1740–1789) was the French governor of the Bastille, the son of a previous governor, and commander of its garrison when the prison-fortress in Paris was stormed on 14 July 1789 ("see Storming of the Bastille"). The marquis Bernard-René Jordan de Launay was born on the night of 8/9 April 1740 in the Bastille where his father, René Jourdan de Launay, was governor. At the age of eight he was appointed to an honorary position in the King's Musketeers ("mousquetaires du roi"). He subsequently entered the French Guards ("gardes-françaises"), a regiment
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