I have just become aware of a series that is written in French, Les Aventures de Gilles Belmonte by Fabien Clauw. There are currently 7 books in the series in Kindle, Paperback and Audiobook formats and an 8th will be released soon. So if you speak French this may be of interest.
Using Google Translate the series description is:-
A great maritime adventure novel where love meets death, and the reader rubs shoulders with intrepid sailors and big-hearted brigands.
March 1798. Robespierre had lost his head and Napoleon was still in Bonaparte's swaddling clothes. In these tormented times, intrigues and betrayals are the daily life of men of power seeking as much to save their heads as to make a fortune.
At war with most of Europe's monarchies, revolutionary France counted England and its powerful Royal Navy among its enemies. Alas, short of credits, the French fleet suffered from widespread corruption and a large part of its officers, of noble lineage, had migrated. The young Republican Marine is consumed on the ashes of the late Royal...
In this bubbling atmosphere of the Directory, a new setting of the genre, the author plants the fiery Gilles Belmonte, a frigate captain. Enlisted in the Royal Navy at the age of 13, he was 29 when he was entrusted with a new ship, the Égalité, and a mission crucial to the future of France.
Between the machinations of the secret services, battles at sea and budding loves, will his sense of honor and his formidable instincts get the better of an enemy ready for anything?
