Certainly! I refer you to the exhaustive book 'The French Navy & The Seven Years War' by Jonathan R. Dull. In it are a number of accounts regarding the state of French ships of that period and following, in which entire campaigns were ruined as a result of plagues that killed the majority of the crews and/or soldiers carried. These plagues of Typhus were the direct result of poor hygiene aboard, and one direct result was the loss of the great Canadian fortress of Louisburg, because the sizeable fleet sent with thousands of reinforcing troops was decimated by disease. The fleet barely made it back to France with the survivors, and then spread the infection to the towns, with over 30,000 casualties recorded, just within the ranks of the French Navy! One other standard to note, which carried through much of the Naploeonic Wars was the British custom of stripping, and purposely sinking and refloating captured ships to rid them of infestations of the lice and fleas inherent with french warships. If this was not possible, then fumigation with burning sulpher pots was often required. The British very early on made a great study of the diseases inherent with seamen, and many treatises and experiments were carried out. Such efforts resulted not only in the discovery of a preventative for scurvy in the mid 18th century (lemons and lime juice, which was not 'discovered' or followed by either the French, or the Spanish until AFTER the Napoleonic wars!), but also the great benefits to be acquired by a scrupulous attention to cleanliness of the crew, and cleanliness of the ship, which became virtually a requirement and standard operating procedure for all British commanders, and this spilled over into the British East India company as well. You might also examine the biography of the great (but filthy!) French Admiral Suffren and his activities in the Indian Ocean for contemporary accounts of the condition and hygiene of French warships (Admiral Satan,' by Roderick Cavaliero). Not to put too fine a point on it, the French ships
stank and their nationality could be easily told if you happened to be downwind of one...... The account of Mr. Boudriot relates to the standard practice on
British warships, not French! Prior to the Revoluution, all ships officers on French warships were members of the aristocracy, and owed their position to court influence, not skill, experience, or training. the best officers on the French navy in fact received their training through service with the Knights of Malta, not any French naval academy (Suffren is the greatest example of this). But even here, family connections were paramount, not merit. Little, or no attention was paid to most of the ships workings by the officers, and even less was paid to the condition of the men, or the conditions they lived in.