Pierre André de Suffren de Saint Tropez

Who was Pierre André de Suffren de Saint Tropez?

Admiral comte Pierre André de Suffren de Saint Tropez, bailli de Suffren, French admiral, was the third son of the marquis de Saint Tropez, head of a family of nobles of Provence which claimed to have emigrated from Lucca in the 14th century. He was born in the Château de Saint-Cannat, near Aix-en-Provence in the present département of Bouches-du-Rhône. He was most famous for his campaign in the Indian Ocean, in which he inconclusively contended for supremacy against the established British power there, led by Vice-Admiral Sir Edward Hughes.