Governor of the Bastille he wrote to the Lieutenant-General of Police: "The head of Monsieur La Riviere is always heated and I begin to despair that his poor head may not heal without the remedy ... With profound respect ... " On the sidelines the magistrate wrote: "To hang" Bernard-Rene Jourdan de Launay was the last Governor of the Bastille and took his post in October 1776. He paid Jumilhac 300,000 livres for his post as governor. The Marquis de Launay was born in the Bastille in 1740. His father, René Jourdan de Launay, had already been governor for twelve years and died there
Claudio Gabriele de Launay in his place the moderate liberal Massimo d'Azeglio, before elections took place. De Launay was subsequently nominated Generale d'Armata and later retired to private life. De Launay died in Turin in 1850. Claudio Gabriele de Launay Claudio Gabriele de Launay (6 October 1786 – 21 February 1850) was prime minister of the Kingdom of Sardinia from 27 March to 7 May 1849. Previously he had been the last Viceroy of Sardinia from 1843 to 1848. De Launay, born in a noble family from the French-speaking region of Savoy, was the son of Count Luigi Filiberto de Launay and the French