Of the other officers, a third almost of the _Annuaire de la Noblesse_, the Debrett of Versailles, was represented at Fort Royal. Among the senior officers alone there were four Marquises, two Viscounts, five Counts, six Chevaliers, two Barons, nineteen 'de's,' only two plain Messieurs. There was a second De Vaudreuil, the Vicomte's younger brother, the Comte de Vaudreuil, a man of another kind--a smart, hard-fighting officer, but better known for his feats of gallantry than for his feats of arms, in particular as the favoured first lover of that haughty young beauty Gabrielle Yolande de Polignac, daintiest of Court ladies of the hour, '_avec le visage d'un ange et_'--perhaps it will be kinder to say no more. The Comte de Vaugiraud was Captain of the Fleet. Baron d'Escars, of the house of Fitz-James, notorious for his fanatical hatred of Great Britain, was captain of the _Glorieux_. The Sieur de la Clochetterie, an impetuous and brilliant officer--whose name as captain of the _Belle Poule_ in her duel with the 'Saucy' _Arethusa_ at the outset of the war, the French navy still remembers--commanded the _Hercule_. Comte d'Albert de Rions, by reputation the ablest tactician in the French navy, after De Suffren, was the senior captain. A De la Charette commanded the black _Bourgogne_;[20] a De Castellan, the _Auguste_; De la Vicomte, the _Hector_; and so on. There is, indeed, as one runs down the list of the French captains at Fort Royal, quite a ring of mediaeval chivalry, of old-time romance, about their names. De Mortemart, De Monteclerc, De Saint Cesaire, De Champmartin, De Castellane-Majastre, Le Gardeur de Tilly, to take half-a-dozen other names at random--one might almost be checking off one of Bayard's _compagnies d'elite_, or calling over a muster-roll of the Lances of Du Guesclin. In the junior ranks were a De Tourville, the Vicomte de Betisy, two scions of the historic house of St. Simon, a Grimaldi, a Lascaris, a De Lauzun, a De Sevigne, a MacMahon, a Talleyrand, a De Segur, a De Rochefoucauld, a Montesquieu. Brueys d'Aigalliers, of a noble family of Languedoc, who later on took service under the Revolution, and perished fighting Nelson at the Nile, was one of the lieutenants. La Perouse, the explorer, was a _capitaine de fregate_. Bruix and Denis Decres, Napoleon's Ministers of Marine in later days, were two of the midshipmen. Magon, who fell a rear-admiral at Trafalgar, was an _enseigne de vaisseau_. L'Hermitte, Troude, Willaumez, Emeriau, Bourayne, others of Napoleon's admirals, were among the boy _volontiers d'honneur_ (naval cadets) in various ships of the Fort Royal fleet. De Grasse's personal staff comprised the Vicomte de Grasse, the admiral's nephew, the Comte de Cibon, and the Marquis de Beaulieu.