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“Officier”
Though a little romanticized, this is an image of an Officer of the French Marines painted in France in 1754 – the same year that Jean Baptiste Lapaise de Védrines was serving as an Officer of the French Marines at the Fort de Chartres in Illinois. This title “Officer of