Jean-Baptiste Luton Durival (4 July 1725 – 14 February 1810) was an 18th-century French historian, diplomat and Encyclopédiste.
), married since 29 October 1712 to Anne Humblot, his mother.
While his elder brother was secrétaire des conseils d’État et des finances under Stanisław Leszczyński, Jean-Baptiste took the post of first secretary of Foreign Affairs, premier secrétaire des affaires étrangères, under the Duke Étienne-François de Choiseul and led a diplomatic career.
In 1777, he was summoned to the Dutch Republic as Minister of France.
[3] Luton-Durival wrote several articles related to the Art militaire for the Encyclopédie.