Labourdonnais, Maré de, French naval officer, born at St. Malo, Governor of the Isle of France; distinguished himself against the English in India; was accused of dishonourable conduct, and committed to the Bastille, but after a time found guiltless and liberated (1699-1753).
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Laboulaye, René de * Labrador