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Jean-Frédéric de La Tour-du-Pin Gouvernet (22 March 1727, Grenoble – 28 April 1794 Paris) was a French nobleman and politician. His full titles were Comte de Paulin, Marquis de la Roche-Chalais et de Cénevières, Vicomte de Calvignac, Comte de Chastelard, Vicomte de Tesson et d'Ambleville, Baron de Cubzac, Seigneur du Cubzaguais, Seigneur de Formarville. He was the penultimate Secretary of State for War under the Ancien Régime before being executed in 1794 with his brother Philippe-Antoine. ==Life== He was the son of Jean de La Tour-du-Pin, Comte de Paulin and Suzanne de La Tour.〔(La Tour Du Pin ), Neil Jeffares, Dictionary of pastellists before 1800〕 He married Marguerite Cécile Séraphine de Guinot, daughter of the Marquis de Monconseil, which gave him the viscounty of Ambleville. He served as colonel of the Bourbon Regiment of Cavalry in 1741, captain in 1744, colonel of the Grenadiers de France in 1749, Chevalier de Saint Louis in 1757, colonel of the Regiment Brigadier Guien in 1761; he was appointed colonel of the Piedmont Regiment and Marshal of the camp in 1762. He was a Lieutenant General in 1781. In 1787 he was appointed Lieutenant General and Commander in Chief of the provinces of Aunis, Saintonge, Poitou and Lower Angoumois, and Lieutenant-General of the Armies of the King on 5 December 1787 and Marshal of the camp. The Comte de La Tour-du-Pin was appointed commander of the Provinces of Poitou and Saintonge, and then he was elected deputy to the Estates General on 26 March 1789. He represented the nobility of the sénéchaussée Saintes.〔http://www.histoirepassion.eu/spip.php?article1073〕 He served as Minister of War, 4 August 1789 to 16 November 1790, during the first years of the French Revolution.〔http://www.rulers.org/frgovt1.html〕 He restored discipline in the army and received the congratulations of the National Assembly. Soon under political attack by the Jacobins, he offered his resignation, but the King refused to accept it. Louis XVI also recalled him in 1792 to become part of the Government. He defended Marie-Antoinette during her trial before the prosecutor, Fouquier-Tinville, who did not like La Tour-du-Pin's respect for the Queen. He was guillotined on 28 April 1794, when he was sentenced at the same time as his elder brother. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Jean-Frédéric de la Tour du Pin-Gouvernet」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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