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Sartine, at any rate, moved to ascertain how many ships could be readied should France need them. On 17 March 1775 he wrote the intendants of Brest, Rochefort, and Toulon to ask how many ships at their ports could be readied for sea. Sartine's inquiries produced near panic and he had to assure the intendant at Brest that his questions did not mean war was imminent, that no fleets would have to be dispatched, and that in fact there was nothing to make one suspect the possibility of war.

The French Navy and American Independence, Jonathan R. Dull.

Sartine was the Secretary of State for the Navy in France at the time, and, even better for him, King Louis XVI had a great liking for all thing naval (all that time playing with toy sailboats, perhaps?) and so was more lenient towards granting money to refitting ships and so on. The poor intendants, however, must have been little freaked out by the sudden request for the number of their ships that could conceivably go into war soon...

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