Paul François Ignace Barlatier de Mas was the second Lord of Le Mas

Le Mas

Le Mas is a commune in the Alpes-Maritimes department in southeastern France.-References:*...

 (Seigneur du Mas) and a French Naval Captain who participated in the American Revolutionary War. He was the Captain of the Alexandre

Born in 1739, son of Louis Mathieu, a counselour of the parliament of Aix in Provence, and Anne Cécile d´Estienne Blégier, he was the only surviving male son of 7 children. In 1767 he married Anne Marie de Perier de la Garde with whom he had eight children. His direct descendants include Count Pierre Barlatier de Mas, Baron Paul Albert Raymond Barlatier de Mas and the explorer François Edmond Eugene de Barlatier de Mas

François Edmond Eugene de Barlatier de Mas

François Edmond Eugène de Barlatier de Mas was a French naval officer, born in 1810 in the Saussay. He was the son of Auguste de Barlatier de Mas 1781-1836 and Sophie Joséphine Archdeacon 1785-1857, and grandson of the Famous Captain Paul François Ignace de Barlatier de Mas who fought in the...

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Paul François Ignace was a Garde-Marine in 1755, an Enseigne de Vaisseau in 1757, a Lieutenant de Vaisseau in 1771, and a Capitaine de Vaisseau du Roy in 1781; he retired in 1785 to be a Chef des Classes in the French Antibes from 1786-90. Barlatier de Mas was also a chevalier de St Louis (knight) and had a permanent hereditary seat at The Society of the Cincinnati

Society of the Cincinnati

The Society of the Cincinnati is a historical organization with branches in the United States and France founded in 1783 to preserve the ideals and fellowship of the American Revolutionary War officers and to pressure the government to honor pledges it had made to officers who fought for American...

 for his contribution to the American Revolutionary War

American Revolutionary War

The American Revolutionary War , the American War of Independence, or simply the Revolutionary War, began as a war between the Kingdom of Great Britain and thirteen British colonies in North America, and ended in a global war between several European great powers.The war was the result of the...

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