'Veue' is French for 'view'. It's not the name of the vessel.
But I think I have found her. Le Triomphant, or possibly her sistership Le Belliqueux
The Triomphant was a ship of the line of the French Royal Navy. One of two sisterships designed and built by Laurent Hubac (the other was the Belliqueux). Started as Brave in Brest and launched on 20 June 1675, she was renamed Constant six days later, and completed in 1676; she was renamed Triomphant on 28 June 1678. She took part in the Battle of Beachy Head on July 10, 1690, and in the Battle of Barfleur on May 29, 1692.
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But I think I have found her. Le Triomphant, or possibly her sistership Le Belliqueux
The Triomphant was a ship of the line of the French Royal Navy. One of two sisterships designed and built by Laurent Hubac (the other was the Belliqueux). Started as Brave in Brest and launched on 20 June 1675, she was renamed Constant six days later, and completed in 1676; she was renamed Triomphant on 28 June 1678. She took part in the Battle of Beachy Head on July 10, 1690, and in the Battle of Barfleur on May 29, 1692.
French ship Triomphant (1675) - Wikipedia
Maybe also interesting, that there is a model existing
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Something different:
A "model" was shown in the Expo 1900
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Triomphant
This French Ship of the Line was built by Laurent Hubac at the yards in Brest, France. She was launched on 20 June, 1675, and completed in 1676 with the name of Constant. She was renamed Triomphant...
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take also a look at
Le Triomphant (1675) - Wikipedia, la enciclopedia libre
Something different:
A "model" was shown in the Expo 1900
Sammlung Richter Come with me to Neverland - Artblog Cologne
Ein Spaziergang über die Expo 1900, beziehungsweise dessen Simulation anhand etlicher Abbildungen einiger altehrwürdiger Bücher der Sammlung Richter. Von Claus Richter
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Le Palais de l'Agriculture et de l'Alimentation
Dans l'énorme Galerie des Machines de 1889 de pittoresques maisonnettes forment un véritable village. Le première, à gauche, abrite de vénérables pressoirs e…
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The drawing you are referencing is a plate from the Album de Colbert of 1670. Upon the birth of the new navy, the French were interested in documenting the complete construction process of a ship, in this case a First-Rate of 84 guns.
While the Triophant and Belligeux may have been ships of this class, it is unlikely that they closely resembled these drawings of what was actually a fictional/generic ship.
Kit manufacturers like Heller have based their plastic kit of a fictional warship, Le Phenix (because of the bird on the prow), on this very same Album de Colbert.
The above Wikipedia reference is a good example of why that is not always a reliable reference. Wiki sometimes makes lazy connections among related things that aren’t truly representative of the subject being discussed.
While the Album de Colbert is an invaluable document for showing a mostly correct view of the internals of a wooden warship, there are numerous anachronisms inherent in the drawing of the thing - the dead flat sheer of the vessel being the most obvious.
The following Puget portrait of the Monarque of 1668, is a perfectly accurate impression of what a French 80+ gun ship of the times looked like:
Likewise, here is the 100+ gun Royal Louis of 1668, likely after her first refit in 1677:
While the Triophant and Belligeux may have been ships of this class, it is unlikely that they closely resembled these drawings of what was actually a fictional/generic ship.
Kit manufacturers like Heller have based their plastic kit of a fictional warship, Le Phenix (because of the bird on the prow), on this very same Album de Colbert.
The above Wikipedia reference is a good example of why that is not always a reliable reference. Wiki sometimes makes lazy connections among related things that aren’t truly representative of the subject being discussed.
While the Album de Colbert is an invaluable document for showing a mostly correct view of the internals of a wooden warship, there are numerous anachronisms inherent in the drawing of the thing - the dead flat sheer of the vessel being the most obvious.
The following Puget portrait of the Monarque of 1668, is a perfectly accurate impression of what a French 80+ gun ship of the times looked like:
Likewise, here is the 100+ gun Royal Louis of 1668, likely after her first refit in 1677:
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Here is what a Second-Rate warship of 1670, by Laurent Hubac looked like:
This is Le Terrible, a good example of the broad beamed, and Dutch-influenced style of Hubac.
This is Le Terrible, a good example of the broad beamed, and Dutch-influenced style of Hubac.
All I can say is I can not fathom being on the receiving end of a broadside from such massive ships…on any Navy…but perchance that was the point?
The ship looks in detail the same as Heller's kit of ,,Le PHENIX,, .
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