Charles René Dominique Sochet, Chevalier Destouches, also often spelled Des Touches, (French pronunciation: [ʃaʁl ʁəne dɔminik sɔʃɛ ʃəvalje detuʃ]; 7 October 1727 – 23 December 1793) was a Chef d'Escadre in the French Navy.

After France entered the American War of Independence 1778, Destouches commanded the 74-gun Neptune,[1] part of a fleet led by the Comte de Grasse that eventually occupied Newport, Rhode Island.

[2][3] In 1781, now a rear admiral and in command of the Newport fleet, he led an attempt to deliver troops to Virginia to oppose those of the British general Benedict Arnold, who was engaged in the raids against economic and military targets there.

This effort failed when he encountered the fleet of Admiral Mariot Arbuthnot in the Battle of Cape Henry, and drew away after several of his ships sustained significant damage.

When the French Revolution broke out, Destouches sided with the Royalists, and was drawn into counter-revolutionary activities in the Vendée in 1793.