Sailors, explorers, oceanographers or offshore racers, they have left their mark on the history of the French with the sea. Portraits of pioneer figures of the oceans.
The English thought he had come straight out of the sea. Pierre André de Suffren had given them so much trouble that they nicknamed him "Admiral Satan". The French officer was at the time one of the few sailors to make them reduce their superiority. This daring was well worth a little hatred and a lot of admiration. In powder and spray, the legend of the “bailiff” has spanned centuries and oceans.
An overflowing and contested personality, the “French Nelson” is undoubtedly the best known abroad among our great war sailors. His enemies, like historians, have praised his science of the sea and of combat. The great French maritime theorist, Admiral Castex, considered him with Ruyter and Nelson, as one of the "three immortal names which mark the history of the sailing navy" . Rarely, he also finds favor
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