TRUGUET, Laurent Jean Francois (troo-gay), Comte, French naval officer, born in Toulon, 10 January, 1752; died in Paris, 26 December, 1839. He entered the navy in 1756, and had made eight cruises to the Gulf of Mexico and South America at the beginning of the war of 1778. He was then attached as lieutenant to the fleet of Count d'Estaing, took part in the assault on St. Lucia and in the engagement with Admiral Howe off Port Royal, Martinique, and at the siege of Savannah in September, 1779, saved D'Estaing's life. He was promoted captain, and assisted under De Guichen in the engagements with Admiral Byron off Dominica, and served afterward under be Grasse and Vaudreuil to the end of the cruise. He was promoted rear-admiral in 1792, and vice-admiral in 1794. He was secretary of the navy from November, 1795, till May, 1797, and made strenuous efforts to pacify Santo Domingo and the French colonies in the Antilles. He was ambassador in Spain in 1797-'8, and obtained the release of all the French citizens arrested in South America as republicans. Truguet was state councillor in 1801 and maritime prefect of Holland in 1811-'14, and was made admiral of France, 19 November, 1831.