Governor of the Bastille of Acy, lord of Beu and Nesle-en-Tardenois, chamberlain of the King. He is quoted in numerous documents between 1386 and November 1404, date of his death that are now held in the department of manuscripts of the Bibliothèque nationale de France . The last governor to hold this position, the unfortunate Bernard-René de Launay, appointed in 1776, was beheaded on 14 July 1789 and replaced by a provisional governor during the demolition of the building. At the end of the Ancien Régime, the governor of the Bastille was reduced to being a subordinate of the lieutenant-general of police. He could
Bernard Gavoty the côtes de Provence. 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