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Vice-amiral

Antoine-Jean-Marie Thévenard
Vice-amiral Antoine-Jean-Marie Thévenard, portrait by Louis Hierle.
Born7 December 1733
Saint-Malo
Died9 February 1815(1815-02-09) (aged 81)
Paris
AllegianceLouis XVI
French First Republic
First French Empire
Service / branchFrench Navy
Years of service1745–1816
RankVice-amiral
AwardsCount of the Empire

Grand officer of theLegion of Honour
Commander of the Order of Saint Louis

Buried at the Panthéon
RelationsFather to Antoine-René Thévenard

Antoine Jean Marie Thévenard (7 December 1733, Saint-Malo[1] - 9 February 1815, Paris[2]) was a French politician and vice admiral. He served in the French ruling regimes of Louis XVI, those of the Revolution, Napoleon I and Louis XVIII, and is buried at the Panthéon de Paris. His son Antoine-René Thévenard, capitaine de vaisseau, was killed at the Battle of Aboukir whilst commanding the 74-gun Aquilon.

Career

Thévenard was born to Antoine Thévenard, a senior officer in the merchant navy,[3] and Jeanne Moinet.[1] He began sailing as a lieutenant in 1747 on merchantmen captained by his father, and went on to sail for the Compagnie des Indes.[4]

Aged 12 he embarked on a Compagnie des Indes ship and fought in several battles. He became a lieutenant in 1754 and destroyed the English establishments on the Newfoundland coast and took part in the pirate François Thurot's expedition to Ireland (1759).

Returning to Saint-Malo, he helped in the planning of frigate construction, before being put in charge of overseeing constructions already in progress, and thus built the first gunboats in the French Navy. He was promoted Capitaine de vaisseau in the Compagnie des Indes in 1764 before enlisting in the French Navy, becoming Capitaine de frégate in 1770, then Capitaine de vaisseau in 1773.[1] He then commanded the Lorient fleet from 1779,[4] and became Chef d'escadre in 1783.[4]

He became ministre de la Marine under Louis XVI in May 1791,[4] but resigned in September 1791. Promoted Vice-amiral in 1793,[4] he commanded the fleets at Brest, then Toulon, then Rochefort, and became Préfet maritime of Lorient then Toulon in 1801, where he remained until 1815. On 5 February 1810 he was made a comte d'Empire and member of the Sénat conservateur.[2] He then became a member of the Chambre des Pairs in 1814.[2]

Thévenard was buried in the Panthéon.[2]

Memberships

Honours


Works

By Antoine-Jean-Marie Thévenard
  • Rapports à l'Académie de Marine[4]
  • Services militaires des officiers de l'ancienne Compagnie des Indes[4]
  • Sur une École de marine à Lorient[4]
  • Sur le Commerce des Indes-Orientales[4]
  • Calculs pour tirer un vaisseau à terre[4]
  • Comparaison des courbes de fer à celles de bois[4]
  • Observations sur l'ordonnance de la marine du 27 Septembre 1776[4]
  • Projet de guerre contre les Anglais[4]
  • Mesurer avec précision la profondeur de la mer en sondant[4]
  • Nouvelle édition du Neptune oriental[4]
  • Sur l'établissement d'un port de secours à Pontrieux[4]
  • Expérience sur l'air dans les vaisseaux désarmés[4]
  • Essai sur les phares[4]
  • Observations météorologiques[4]
  • Sur le doublage en cuivre des vaisseaux, les toiles à voiles, la circulation du sang, la pêche à la sardine, la conservation des gens de mer, le commerce entre la France et les États-Unis[4]
  • Sur l'Île de la Trinité[4]
  • Sur l'enduit nommé galgale[4]
  • Sur le magnétisme animal[4]
  • Sur les Volcans, l'Artillerie, la Mécanique, la Lumière, le Nivellement de la Mer Rouge, la Résistance des Fluides, le Passage du raz de Sein ou de Fontenay[4]

All the above were later re-printed in four volumes as Mémoires relatifs à la marine.[2]

Notes and References

Notes

References

  1. ^ a b c Cunat, p.387
  2. ^ a b c d e Cunat, p.389
  3. ^ Arnault, p.426
  4. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x Cunat, p.388

Bibliography

  • Arnault, Antoine-Vincent (1827). Biographie nouvelle des contemporains [1787-1820] (in French). Vol. 19. (San-Thou)
  • Cunat, Charles (1857). Saint-Malo illustré par ses marins (in French). Imprimerie de F. Péalat.


Military offices
Preceded by Minister of the Navy and the Colonies
17 May 1791-18 September 1791 		Succeeded by

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