Complex sentence: The body of the ship was built on the l'Orient dockyard of the Gironde Works in the province of Bordeaux and was named for Pierre Victurnien Vergniaud, Bordeaux's most famous statesman of the French Revolution.
Split into simpler sentences: The body of the ship was built on the l'Orient dockyard of the Gironde Works in the province of Bordeaux. The vessel was named for Pierre Victurnien Vergniaud, Bordeaux's most famous statesman of the French Revolution.