Sébastien-François Bigot, vicomte de Morogues, (1 March 1706, Brest, France - 26 August 1781, Villefallier, near Orléans, Loiret), was a French soldier and sailor.

Life

An artillery specialist, he served in the Royal-Artillerie then the French Navy. In 1759, he commanded the 70 gun Le Magnifique, including at the Battle of Quiberon Bay. He was the first director of the Académie de Marine. [[In 1763, he published Tactique navale, which was of such quality that it quickly became known in English and Dutch translations. He was made a lieutenant-general in the Navy in 1771.

Works

"Granted a vast curiosity, he was the author of several scientific mémoires on naval construction, crews' health, manoeuvres and artillery presented to the Académie de marine or the Académie des sciences. With Duhamel du Monceau he also conceived of a project for an encyclopaedia of maritime knowledge"

• Bigot de Morogues, Tactique Navale, 1763.

Honours

At least three roads in Brittany bear his name, according to the 1997 book Les Noms qui ont fait l'histoire de Bretagne.