Rochambeau family.
Jean-Baptiste Donatien de Vimeur, comte de Rochambeau (1725-1807) commanded the French expeditionary force during the American Revolution,culminating in the victory at Yorktown. His military career, which spanned the War of the Austrian Succession to the early years of the French Revolution is recorded in his Mémoires Militaires, Historiques et Politiques, published posthumously in 1809.
Joseph-Charles de Vimeur, marquis de Rochambeau (d. 1779), the father of the comte de Rochambeau, was appointed grand bailli d'épée of the duchy of Vendômois, and governor of the town of Vendôme.
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