The life and times of Louis Guittar are extremely sparse with no mention of his life before turning to piracy other than he was possibly born in 1667 perhaps in Brittany. He became active in the latter part of 1690 in command of a ship named La Paix that preyed upon trade vessels in the Caribbean and Mid-Atlantic region. At the beginning of 1700 the act of plundering ships in the Chesapeake Bay was startled when an English warship under the command of Captain William Passenger to combat pirating in the area. Deciding to instead to a hasty retreat option Guittar selected another target Lynnhaven Bay, Virginia a few months later to which a battle ensued and he was coerced to admit defeat and with a last-ditch effort threatened to explode the ship if he was not pardoned. Instead, they were arrested and tried for piracy and sent to England to carry out the sentence and subsequently were hanged in London.


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