Governor of the Bastille of Acy, lord of Beu and Nesle-en-Tardenois, chamberlain of the King. He is quoted in numerous documents between 1386 and November 1404, date of his death that are now held in the department of manuscripts of the Bibliothèque nationale de France . The last governor to hold this position, the unfortunate Bernard-René de Launay, appointed in 1776, was beheaded on 14 July 1789 and replaced by a provisional governor during the demolition of the building. At the end of the Ancien Régime, the governor of the Bastille was reduced to being a subordinate of the lieutenant-general of police. He could
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