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Jean Baptiste François de La Villéon

French admiral

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionFeb 5, 2026
Entity authorityQ3170543 ↗
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Jean Baptiste François, comte de La Villéon, seigneur du Frescheclos (born 1740) was a French vice admiral. He was member of the Order of Cincinnatus and knight of the ordre de Saint-Louis.

Career

Garde de la Marine in 1755

Captain of a navy vessel in 1781

Contre-amiral in 1792

Vice-amiral in 1814

Sources

Christian de Jonquière, "Officiers de Marine aux Cincinnati", Ed. Poliphile 1988.

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This entry incorporates text from “Jean Baptiste François de La Villéon” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.