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 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