Duguay-Trouin, René, a celebrated French sea-captain, born at St. Malo; distinguished at first in privateer warfare during the reign of Louis XIV., and afterwards as a frigate captain in the royal navy, to which the royal favour promoted him; was much beloved by the sailors and subordinate officers; died poor (1673‒1736).
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Dugommier * Du Guesclin, Bertrand