Jean David Nau (* approx. 1635 in Les Sables d'Olonne - "† 1667 in was well-known under its alias l'Ollonais. It was a French Pirat in the Karibik into the 1660er years. Alexandre Olivier Exquemelin writes the Bucaniers OF America to 1684 in its book The History OF that L'Ollonais in Les Sables d'Olonne was born.

After one or two years activity as Pirat L'Ollonais became shipwrecked in close proximity to Campeche in Mexico. A group Spanish soldiers attacked it and its crew, whereby nearly the entire crew was killed. L'Ollonais survived, by he itself with the blood the other beschmierte and itself under the dead one hidden. After the departure of the Spaniards it escaped with the aid some slaves and made themselves on after Tortuga. Shortly thereafter took it and its crew a city as hostages and required a ransom of the Spanish crown. The governor von Havanna sent a ship, in order to kill L'Ollonais' troop. These came however into the hands of the Piraten. L'Ollonais let all behead up to one. The spared one should bring the message after Havanna, in which L'Ollonais explained:

"From now on will I opposite no Spaniard any grace more walten to leave."

1667 stung L'Ollonais from Tortuga with a fleet of 8 ships and a crew of 600 Piraten in lake, around Maracaibo too The way there it met a Spanish treasure ship, which it conquered. It brought richly booty at cocoa, jewels and more than 40,000 peso into silver.

At this time the entrance to the lake of Maracaibo (and thus to the city) was secured by a fortress with 16 cannons, which was considered as uneinnehmbar. L'Ollonais attacked however from the fastened land side and took the city. Afterwards the Piraten walked for the plundering of the city, it stated however that most inhabitants had fled and had hidden their gold. The Piraten sought out the inhabitants and tortured it, to it the hiding places of their properties relinquishments. They robbed also the cannons of the fortress and destroyed nearly the entire city attachment, in order to make a fast retreat possible.

L'Ollonais was an expert in torturing, and its technology contained a slitting of the skin of the victim with the sword, alive burning or "woolding". Geknotetes rope was bound around the head of the victim, until the eyes of the victim out-stepped.

In the process of the following two months raped, and burned he and its men the city almost perfectly, before they took off to the south toward Gibraltar on the south bank of the Maracaibo lake. Although they were in Unterzahl, the Piraten slaughtered the garrison of Gibraltar, which consisted of 500 soldiers, off, and demanded a ransom (20,000 silver peso and 500 pieces of gold). Although this was paid, he looked for the city further home. It actually brought 260,000 silver peso, jewels, silver goods, silk materials and a number to slaves and its men. The damage, which it caused, was so large that the city, which was an important center of the cocoa export before, stopped almost to exist.

The customer of its attack on Maracaibo and Gibraltar reached Tortuga, and it won a call for his gameness and cruelty. It received from now on the surnames of "troubles of the Spaniards" (frz: of the Espagnois). This relieved it to win participants for its next booty course and so later 700 Piraten participated in its next attack on the Central American mainland in the same year. After they had Puerto Cabello, L'Ollonais on the way came after San Pedro into an ambush of a large number of Spanish soldiers, from whom he could escape only with scarce emergency. He could take however two Spaniards prisoner. Exquemelin writes in addition:

"It pulled its sword, and with this it cut the chest open one of these poor Spaniards, and pulled its heart out with its hands, bit too and tore to it with its teeth, like a savage wolf, and spoke to the others: I will likewise treat you, if their me shows no other way."

Before fright petrified it the survivors Spaniards showed another way after San Pedro. L'Ollonais and its survivors of men were however struck back and had to withdraw itself to the ships. In the gulf of Honduras they ran on a sand bank. Since they were not able to free-get their ship they turned to foot in the inland, where they fell in into the hands of Ameriindianern. Exquemelin writes that

"they it alive into pieces tore, its body member for member in the fire threw and its ash into air."

Source

• Exquemelin, Alexander. The History OF the Bucaniers OF America. 1684

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