St. Tammany Library, Covington, LA. Book: A Dictionary of Louisiana Biography; Volume 1, A to M Glenn R. Conrad; page 81 BOBE-DESCLOSEAUX, Jean-Baptiste-Claude, administrator. Born, Versailles, France, in late seventeenth or early eighteenth century. Worked in French Ministry of Marine, 1722-1728. Sent to Louisiana in 1739 to fill the post of comptroller of the navy; stationed at Mobile. In the 1740's served as acting commissary of the navy in place of an ailing official. After the commissary's death, applied for and was eventually named to the post of commissary of the navy. Served for many years on the Superior Council of the colony. Work for the navy took him to other settlements of the colony. Stationed at New Orleans in the latter part of his colonial service. When he first came to Louisiana, he left his wife Marie Jacquinot de Lorme and two sons in France, but family joined him in later years. A French army officer who died while on duty in the Illinois country was listed as "Desclozeaux" in Governor Vaudreuil's correspondence of July 28, 1750, and may have been his son. One of his sons who is definitely identified was Jean-Arnould-Valentin Bobe'-Descloseaux who remained in Louisiana after his father was recalled to France in 1762. This son served the French government and became ordonnateur in 1769 after Spanish rule had been established. He was ordered to carry French records back to France in 1772, but drowned at sea when the Marie Therese, the ship on which he was traveling, was wrecked. The records he carried were also lost. Another son, Joseph Guillaum Stanislas Bobe'-Descloseau, a government clerk in Versailles, survived his parents and brothers. Subject's death date is unknown. J.J.J. Sources: Bill Barron, ed. The Vaudreuil Papers (1975); Dunbar Rowland and A. G. Sanders, eds., Mississippi Provincial Archives, French Dominion, IV, V (revised and ed., Patricia Kay Galloway, 1984); New Orleans Genesis, XXV I (1987) Helen Kendrick