Bernard-René Jourdan de Launay however written on 5 July that "there are two sources of anxiety concerning the Bastille; the person of the commandant (de Launay) and the nature of the garrison there". De Launay had three daughters by two wives. Some of de Launay's brother's descendants settled in Russia (see Boris Delaunay and Vadim Delaunay for details). His killing is described graphically in Charles Dickens' "A Tale of Two Cities" (Book II, Chapter 21) and also in Hilary Mantel's "A Place of Greater Safety". Bernard-René Jourdan de Launay Bernard René Jourdan, marquis de Launay (1740–1789) was the French governor of the Bastille, the
Bernard Gavoty Bernard Gavoty Bernard Gavoty (2 April 1908 – 24 October 1981) was a 20th-century French organist, musicologist and music critic. After being a pupil of Louis Vierne, Bernard Gavoty entered the Conservatoire de Paris where he had Denise Launay, Michel Boulnois, Antoine Reboulot, Félicien Wolff and Jean-Jacques Grunenwald, among others as classmates in the organ class. He held a very special place among the students of Marcel Dupré at the Conservatoire. Indeed, a brilliant speaker, endowed with a perfect speech, knowing how to elegantly write, he made numerous lectures, especially for the , and was a famous French music critic