François Edmond Eugène de Barlatier de Mas was a French naval officer, born in 1810 in the Saussay. He was the son of Auguste de Barlatier de Mas 1781-1836 and Sophie Joséphine Archdeacon 1785-1857, and grandson of the Famous Captain Paul François Ignace de Barlatier de Mas who fought in the American War of Independence against the English and was awarded a permanent seat in the The General Society of the Cincinnati. He married Thérèse Armandine Santerre, great-niece of General Antoine Joseph Santerre, and had three children, Sophie de Barlatier de Mas Peghoux 1842-1918, Armand Auguste de Barlatier de Mas 1845-1894 and Jacques Edmond de Barlatier de Mas 1851-1857.

François Edmond entered the Navy in 1827, being an aspirant on 16 October 1827, Enseigne de vaisseau on 31 January 1832, Lieutenant on 10 April 1837, and Commander on 9 January 1852; Barlatier de Mas was also an officer of the Legion of Honour. On 1 January 1860, he became an Aide-Major in Cherbourg, with the Captain, Philippe Robin Du Parc, General mayor of the 1st arrondissement maritime.^[1]

Lieutenant de Barlatier de Mas was aboard the French ship Astrolabe on Jules Dumont d'Urville's expedition to the Southern Seas. The ships left Toulon on 7 September 1837. On 22 January 1838 the ships came across the Antarctic peninsula region. The De Mas Rocks were named after him during that expedition.^[2]

During his travels to the South Seas Barlatier de Mas collected a vast ensemble of art which is now part of the collection of the Musée de Beaux-Arts de Dunkerque. ^[3]

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