Jouffroy d'Abbans, Claude, Marquis de, is claimed by the French as the first inventor of the steamboat; he made a paddle-steamer ply on the Rhône in 1783, but misfortunes due to the Revolution hindered his progress, till he was forestalled by Fulton on the Seine in 1803 (1751‒1832).
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Joubert, Joseph * Jougs