# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/francois-etienne-de-rosily-mesros
# Generated: 2026-08-15T22:40:14.733Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/francois-etienne-de-rosily-mesros"
name: "François Étienne de Rosily-Mesros"
slug: "francois-etienne-de-rosily-mesros"
description: "Vice-Admiral François Étienne de Rosily-Mesros was a French Navy officer who served in the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars. He was chosen by Napoleon to succeed Pierre-Charles Villeneuve as commander of the combined Franco-Spanish fleet at Cádiz, arriving to take up his appointment just after its defeat at the Battle of Trafalgar. His name is inscribed on the east side of the Arc de Triomphe."
tagline: "French naval commander of the French Revolutionary Wars and Napoleonic Wars"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/F-E_de_Rosily-Mesros.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "France"
  isoCode: "FR"
profileType:
  name: "Other"
  slug: "other"
birthDate: "1748-01-13"
deathDate: "1832-11-12"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           41.1
  momentum:             0
  historical:           6.347337333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "François Étienne de Rosily-Mesros"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "فرانسوا اتين د روسيلى ميسروس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fran%C3%A7ois_%C3%89tienne_de_Rosily-Mesros"
    title: "François Étienne de Rosily-Mesros"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fran%C3%A7ois_%C3%89tienne_de_Rosily-Mesros"
    title: "François Étienne de Rosily-Mesros"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fran%C3%A7ois_%C3%89tienne_de_Rosily-Mesros"
    title: "François Étienne de Rosily-Mesros"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fran%C3%A7ois_%C3%89tienne_de_Rosily-Mesros"
    title: "François Étienne de Rosily-Mesros"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fran%C3%A7ois_%C3%89tienne_de_Rosily-Mesros"
    title: "François Étienne de Rosily-Mesros"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q284615"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump