the Revolution and the Empire, he commanded the seventy-four L'Argonaute at the Battle of Trafalgar (1768–1841), captain of La Piémontaise, was born and died in Granville Pierre Dumanoir le Pelley (1770–1829), vice admiral, he unsuccessfully commanded the vanguard of the line of Franco-Spanish vessels at Trafalgar; politician and Commander of the Legion of Honour (1780–1858), royal courier (1787–1851), winner of the naval battle of Arromanches in 1811 (1787–1847), rear admiral Michel Pierre Alexis Hébert (1799–1887), lawyer and politician (1807–1873), novelist, poet, politician, journalist and historian Louis Henri de Gueydon (1809–1886), vice admiral, governor of Algeria Fortuné du Boisgobey (1821–1891), writer. (1824–1898), painter , (1841–1913), Auxiliary Bishop of Rouen (1841–1880), landscape painter and on porcelain (1853–1907), professor of anatomy at the Émile Guépratte known as "point d'honneur" [point of honour], (1856–1939), admiral, Grand Croix of the Legion of Honour (1867–1932), politician and industrialist Maurice Denis (1870–1943), painter, engraver, theorist and historian of French art Léon Carré (1878–1942), Orientalist painter, winner of the Abd-el-Tif prize in 1909 Léon Julliot de La Morandière, (1885–1968), Professor and Dean of the Paris Law Faculty, then at the University Paris II Panthéon-Assas, also director of the Comparative Law Institute in Paris (1901–1999), actress Christian Dior (1905–1957), legendary couturier Denise Cocquerillat (1918-1999), archaeologist and Assyriologist, specialist in cuneiform texts (born 1932), journalist Pierre Pican (1935-2018), Bishop of Bayeux and Lisieux (born 1939), writer (born 1939), navigator Angèle Delaunois (born 1946), writer Bernard Chenez (born 1946), cartoonist Michel Santier (born 1947), Bishop of Luçon and of Créteil Jacky Robert (born 1950), chef (born 1955), politician Jacques Gamblin (born 1957), actor Christophe Auguin (born 1959), sailor, winner of the 1996–97 Vendée Globe yacht race Lucile Rogations (born 1984), writer who published her first book at twelve, winner of the Flammarion Youth Prize Died in Granville (1791–1870), artist and songwriter (1878–1951), painter, died and is buried in Granville Jean Tissier (1896–1973), actor Eric Crozier (1914–1994), librettist and theatrical director Guy Degrenne (1925–2006), businessman Others Georges Bonheur, investor who was significant to the development of Granville as a seaside resort at the beginning of the 20th century. About the impact of his life and how it is still relevant in Granville today. Richard I de Grenville (died after 1142), Anglo-Norman knight Thomas de Scales (c. 1400–1460), Knight of the Garter, founded the citadel John Granville (1628–1701), 1st Earl of Bath, soldier of the English Civil War, lived in Granville George Granville