Governor of the Bastille nine years after his birth. He was a Black Musketeer of the King, officer in the Gardes Françaises until 1763-1764, then captain of a cavalry regiment. During the Storming of the Bastille on 14 July 1789, De Launay was arrested and escorted to the town hall by one of the leaders of the Revolution, Pierre-Augustin Hulin. In the Place de Greve the furious crowd attacked the escort, assaulting and eventually beheading Governor Launay. After the capture of the fortress, Prosper Soulès assumed the interim duties of acting commander. Governor of the Bastille The Bastille or Bastille Saint-Antoine was completed in
Bernard de Chalvron Bernard de Chalvron Bernard de Chalvron was a French diplomat, political advisor and member of the French Resistance during World War II. Bernard de Chalvon was a diplomat. He had royalist tendencies. In the early 1940s, he served as a political advisor on French Algeria to Marshal Philippe Pétain. He was later replaced by Jacques Tiné. In 1942, he joined the Noyautage des administrations publiques of the French Resistance. After its founder, Claude Bourdet, was arrested, de Chalvron served as its President. He gave copies of reports of meetings conducted by the Vichy government to the United States embassy in