Bernard-René Jourdan de Launay Bernard-René Jourdan de Launay Bernard René Jourdan, marquis de Launay (1740–1789) was the French governor of the Bastille, the son of a previous governor, and commander of its garrison when the prison-fortress in Paris was stormed on 14 July 1789 ("see Storming of the Bastille"). The marquis Bernard-René Jordan de Launay was born on the night of 8/9 April 1740 in the Bastille where his father, René Jourdan de Launay, was governor. At the age of eight he was appointed to an honorary position in the King's Musketeers ("mousquetaires du roi"). He subsequently entered the French Guards ("gardes-françaises"), a regiment
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