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JEAN BART (1651-1702)

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Originally appearing in Volume V03, Page 447 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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JEAN BART (1651-1702)  , French
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naval
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commander, son of a fisherman, was horn in Dunkirk on the 21st of
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October 1651 . He served when young in the Dutch
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navy, but when war broke out between Louis XIV. and Holland in 1672 he entered the French service . He gained
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great distinction in the Mediterranean, where he held an irregular sort of commission, not being then able from his low birth to receive a command in the navy . His success was so great, however, that he was made a
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lieutenant in 1679 . He rose rapidly to the rank of captain and then to that of
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admiral . The peace of Ryswick put a close to his active service . Many anecdotes are narrated of the courage and blunt• ness of the uncultivated sailor, who became the popular hero of the French naval service . The
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town of Dunkirk has honoured his memory by a statue and by naming a public square after him . See Richer,
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Vie de
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Jean Bart (1780), and many
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editions since; Vanderest, Histoire de Jean Bart .

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