Jean-Baptiste des Gallois de La Tour (unknown-1747) was a French public official.
Jean-Baptiste des Gallois de La Tour was born in an old French aristocratic family from Forez.
[1][2] During the trial of the alleged witch Catherine Cadière and the Jesuit Fr Jean-Baptiste Girard (1680-1733), he was remarkably lenient.
Indeed, he appealed to Louis Phélypeaux, comte de Saint-Florentin (1707-1777) for clemency, adding that those were mostly peasants and they should not be fined too heavily, lest they became indigent.
[4] He had a son, Charles Jean-Baptiste des Gallois de La Tour (1715-1802), who served as the last First President of the Parlement of Aix-en-Provence.