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In the summer of 1683, while French royal policy wavered between open war and covert sanction, he seized the Spanish galleon Nuestra Señora de la Concepción not for plunder alone, but to extract a signed letter from its captured captain affirming that Madrid had violated the Treaty of Ratisbon by arming privateers in Cadiz. That document, smuggled ashore in a hollowed-out Bible and delivered to Colbert’s desk, forced Louis XIV’s hand in escalating naval pressure on Spain, proving corsairs could shape diplomacy as decisively as ministers. His logbooks, written in coded Provençal with maritime annotations in Greek, reveal meticulous tracking of tide-dependent harbor defenses and bribes paid to port inspectors in Toulon and Marseille, not just where ships sailed, but who looked away, and why. He never flew the Jolly Roger; his flag bore three silver anchors on indigo, a heraldic nod to both naval authority and unspoken allegiance to no crown but his own.
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