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unusual facts about De Grasse


Jacques-Melchior Saint-Laurent, Comte de Barras

Barras was persuaded by the Comte de Rochambeau to instead go southwards and rendezvous with Admiral De Grasse who had brought his French fleet from the West Indies.


Denis Decrès

Decrès was born in Châteauvillain, Haute-Marne on 18 June 1761 and joined the Navy at the age of 18, in the squadron of Admiral De Grasse.


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Alexandre Francois Auguste de Grasse

On December 12, 1796, the Comte de Grasse, along with seven other men, was issued a patent by Hyman Long that made him a Deputy Grand Inspector General.

Parfums Lubin

Its wares and antique documents can be found displayed in Musées de Grasse's International Perfume Museum in Grasse, France.

Plascassier

Although bordered by several communes—Valbonne, Opio, Mouans-Sartoux and Châteauneuf-de-Grasse—it falls under the jurisdictional umbrella of Grasse.

Yorktown campaign

#General Rochambeau and Chevalier Luzerne both urged de Grasse to decide on the Chesapeake.