"It also lit up the deck of the Formidable, Captain Lalonde, a beautifully built French eighty-gun ship of the line wearing the flag of Rear-Admiral Linois at the mizen ... and with her in line ahead sailed the rest of the squadron, the Indomptable, eighty, Captain Moncousu, the Desaix, seventy-four, Captain Christy-Pallière (a splendid sailer), and the Muiron, a thirty-eight gun frigate...." --Patrick O'Brian, Master and Commander, 367
"It also lit up the deck of the Formidable, Captain Lalonde, a beautifully built French eighty-gun ship of the line wearing the flag of Rear-Admiral Linois at the mizen ... and with her in line ahead sailed the rest of the squadron, the Indomptable, eighty, Captain Moncousu, the Desaix, seventy-four, Captain Christy-Pallière (a splendid sailer), and the Muiron, a thirty-eight gun frigate...."
--Patrick O'Brian, Master and Commander, 367