Addressing a French Naval Officer
I was researching information about the French Navy in 1700 and came across this little gem on Wikiwand about how to properly address a French Naval Officer:
Addressing officers
Unlike in the French Army and air force, one does not prepend mon to the name of the rank when addressing an officer (that is, not mon capitaine, but simply capitaine).[15] Addressing a French Navy lieutenant de vaisseau (for instance) with a "mon capitaine" will attract the traditional answer "Dans la Marine il y a Mon Dieu et mon cul, pas mon capitaine!" ("In the Navy there are My God and my arse, no 'my captain'!").
I included this for your edification:
French naval officers
Corsairs
Heroes of the First Republic
Explorers
Other important French naval officers
Notable people who served in the French Navy
- Marcel Cerdan, world boxing champion during the 1940s
- Jean Cocteau, poet, novelist, dramatist, designer, playwright, artist and filmmaker
- Jean Cras, composer
- Jacques-Yves Cousteau
- Philippe de Gaulle, the son of the general Charles de Gaulle
- Alain Delon, actor, served as a fusilier marine in the First Indochina War
- Bob Denard, a mercenary notorious for coup attempts and wars in Africa
- Jean Gabin, another major French actor, he joined the Free French naval force during the Second World War
- Paul Gauguin, painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramist, and writer
- Bernard Giraudeau, actor, film director, scriptwriter, producer and writer
- André Marty, a leading figure in the French Communist Party (PCF) from 1923 to 1955
- Albert II, Prince of Monaco, reserve Lieutenant Commander
- Pierre Loti, mostly known for his literary works
- Albert Roussel, composer
- Michel Serres, philosopher, and author
- Eric Tabarly, a famous yachtsman
- Victor Segalen, ethnographer, archeologist, writer, poet, explorer, art-theorist, linguist and literary critic
- Eugène Sue, a famous 19th-century novelist
- Paul Emile Victor, an ethnologist, and polar explorer
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