[4] He was the sole surviving officer, and spent two years a prisoner in Morocco[1] before returning to France in 1767.
On 10 April 1782, he was at the Cape of Good Hope, along with the fluyts Éléphant and Lawriston, to fetch food supplies.
[9][10] Bidé de Maurville commanded Artésien at the Battle of Negapatam on 6 July 1782.
[11] On 7 July 1782, following the Battle of Negapatam, Suffren dismissed him from Artésien, replacing him with Armand de Saint-Félix,[12] and sent him back to France.
Maurville was imprisoned at Île de Ré,[13] and freed but expelled from the Navy on 25 July 1783.