 She was designed by the naval architect Joseph Coulomb, and funded by a don des vaisseaux donation from the Estates of Languedoc.Ordered in Toulon, "Languedoc" took several years to complete due to a lack of timber in the shipyard, already busy building "Zélé" and "Bourgogne", and with the orders for the 74-gun "Marseillois" and the 64-gun "Provence" in queue.In 1773, she was under Apchon.