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
Charles de Bernard de Marigny Charles de Bernard de Marigny Charles-René-Louis, vicomte de Bernard de Marigny (1 February 1740 in Sées – 25 July 1816 in Brest) was a French vice admiral, grand-cross of the ordre de Saint-Louis and commander of the Brest fleet. Born the fourth boy of an eight-child, old-but-poor family from Normandy, Marigny was destined to an ecclesiastic career; he was soon sent to Sées seminary. However, his temperament inclined him more to adventure; and at age 14 he escaped the seminary to find refuge with his older brother, who served with the "gardes de la marine" in Rochefort. Marigny broke relations