Claude de Forbin

Lieutenant général des armées navales Claude, comte de Forbin-Gardanne was a French military officer and diplomat. From 1685 to 1688, he led a diplomatic mission to the Ayutthaya Kingdom. He became governor of Bangkok and a general in the Siamese army, and left Siam shortly before King Narai fell ill and was deposed by the Siamese revolution of 1688. Returning to Europe, he served in French Navy during the Nine Years' War and the War of the Spanish Succession.