Charles Cunat

Charles-Marie Cunat (Saint-Malo, 20 May 1789 – Saint-Malo, 21 February 1862. ) was a French naval officer, privateer and naval historian.

Career Cunat started sailing at the age of 16 on the privateer Napoléon, on which he fought in two battles. and sailed several journeys in the Indian Ocean. In 1830, he was awarded the Legion of Honour.

Returned to France to support his ailing wife, Cunat continued to sail merchantmen as captain of the Noémi. After his wife's death, he remarried and settled in Saint-Malo in 1835 to raise his children. From 1835 to 1862, he served as an aid to the major of Saint-Malo, and wrote History books in his spare time.

Works

Cunat furthermore contributed the articles on André Désilles, René Duguay-Trouin, Joseph Potier, Robert Surcouf and various others in the Biographie bretonne directed by Prosper Levot:

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