Antoine-François Bertrand de Molleville

Comte Antoine-François Bertrand de Molleville (20 October 1746, Toulouse ~ 30 December 1818, Paris) was a French politician.

Made ministre de la Marine et des Colonies from 1790 to 1792, he organised the mass emigration of officers.

In 1788, along with the Commander of Rennes, Governor Molleville went to Brittany to announce the royal edict that the Breton Parliament was abolished.

The entire town turned out, and rumors began to spread that it wasn't a royal edict but a power move by the governor.

De Molleville is credited as the inventor of the secateurs in Figures pour l’almanach du bon jardinier: Répresentant les Utensiles le plus généralement employés dans la culture des Jardins, published in 1813.