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 Paris, including information about the treatment of Jews. He was arrested and deported to the Buchenwald concentration camp in May 1944. He was liberated by the Americans in 1945. His son, Alain de Chalvron, is a political journalist. 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