Rubuta ci gaba ga wannan sakin layi - Ya yi aiki a karkashin Ibrahim Duquesne a lokacin yakin 1676, kuma ya zama kwamandan a 1690 a lokacin yakin Grand Alliance. Ya tashi tutar sa ta sirri a kan "Soleil-Royal", inda zai zauna har zuwa yakin La Hougue
a shekara ta 1692. A yakin Beachy Head ("Victoire de Béveziers"), 1690, ya ci nasara da rundunar jiragen ruwa na Anglo-Dutch, ya nutsar ko kama jiragen ruwa bakwai na abokan gaba.