Governor of the Bastille
[4] He is quoted in numerous documents between 1386 and November 1404, date of his death[5] that are now held in the department of manuscripts of the Bibliothèque nationale de France.
If he wanted to remain, he had no other rules to follow than the orders of the lieutenant-general of police, or even those of a simple police commissioner[citation needed] Article 1 of the regulation of 20 September 1764, signed by the King stated: "The governor who commands, or any other officer, shall recognize only the orders of His Majesty and those given to him by the secretary of state.
"However, a letter dated 23 September 1764, signed by the Secretary of State, authorizes the following: "I enclose here, Sir, the regulations which the King has thought fit to render for the service of the Bastille.
You will do well to use them in the same way, for the visits which the lieutenant-general of police thinks they can allow prisoners to receive and who do not require a formal order, but only a letter from him.
Tanneguy du Chastel, Provost of Paris succeeded, in all probability, as Governor of the Bastille to the Duke of Bar in 1417–1418.
They were soon strong enough to besiege and take the Bastille, later bestowing command upon Robert de Canni, Lord of Varennes.
[11] Robert de Canni was a personal enemy of Charles, Duke of Orleans, who had seduced and dishonored his wife.
Jean Bussy-Leclerc, prosecutor in the Parlement of Paris, was made Captain of the Bastille by the Duke of Guise in 1588 after the Day of the Barricades.
Asked to recognize Henri IV as his king, he replied that he had given his faith to Charles de Mayenne and added that Brissac was a traitor.
[13] On 6 March 1597, Dubourg created the Regiment of Bourg de Lespinasse with which he participated in the Siege of Amiens, under orders of Henri IV.
[14] Henri IV entrusted him with command of the Bastille on 22 March 1594, due to the honorable services which he had rendered in its capture.
[18][19] In 1569, he was captain of the Garde Écossaise and accompanied Henri de Valois, elected in 1573 Rzeczpospolita of Poland–Lithuania under the name Henryk Walezy.
After the resignation of Marshal Bassompierre, the constable, Charles Albert, Duke of Luynes, receives, in 1617, the governance of the Bastille.
The Duke of Vitry was in command when the Marechale d'Ancre, Leonora Dori, was conducted there, as she jailed the murderer of her husband, Concino Concini.
His taking office was an event; On 7 May he took command of the fortress at the head of a detachment escorting two new prisoners, the Duke of Modena[21][22] and Dangent.
He immediately dismissed the company established by his predecessor and replaced it with thirty Swiss Guards commanded by the Garde-du-corps.
Charles Leclerc du Tremblay[8] was appointed by Richelieu as Governor of the Bastille, instead of captain, changing the status of the military citadel to a royal prison.
On 12 January 1649, after exchanging a few volleys, the fortress fell into the hands of the frondeurs who conferred command upon Louvière Broussel.
During the peace between the Parlement and the King in 1649, it was stipulated that the Bastille would be surrendered to His Majesty on March 11, but this treaty was not confirmed until the following April 1.
It was by order of the Chancellor that he went with an escort to the assembly of the clergy, sitting at the Grands-Augustins stopped there and led to the Bastille the Abbot of Saint-Jean d'Angély.
"Five years later, on 19 November 1703, Lieutenant Durosarge signed the Act of Interment of this prisoner whose name and motive of imprisonment no one knew.
Dujonca's diary reads: "From Monday, 19 November 1703, the unknown prisoner, always masked by a black velvet he had been keeping for a long time, found himself a little ill yesterday after leaving Mass.
He was a Bordeaux man exempt[28] from the Garde-du-corps, captain of the Regiment of Champagne and lieutenant du roi at the Château de Vincennes.
After the death of Abadie in 1761, it was Antoine-Joseph-Marie Macosi de Jumilhac, First Gentleman of Stanisław Leszczyński, Duke of Lorraine and Bar, that succeeded to governance.
On September 13, he wrote to the Lieutenant-General of Police: "The head of Monsieur La Riviere is always heated and I begin to despair that his poor head may not heal without the remedy ... With profound respect ... "On the sidelines the magistrate wrote: "To hang" Bernard-Rene Jourdan de Launay[27] was the last Governor of the Bastille and took his post in October 1776.
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.
