Bernard-René Jourdan de Launay permanently stationed in Paris except in time of war. In 1776 de Launay succeeded M. de Jumilhac as Governor of the Bastille. As was the custom with many senior positions under the Ancien Régime, the marquis purchased the office of governor from his predecessor as a form of investment. The thirteen years that he spent in this position were uneventful, though on 19 December 1778 he reportedly made the mistake of failing to fire the cannon of the Bastille as a salute on the birth of a daughter (Madame Royale) to King Louis XVI. In August 1785 he was given
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