Jean-Frédéric de La Tour du Pin Gouvernet, (French pronunciation: [ʒɑ̃ fʁedeʁik də la tuʁ dy pɛ̃ ɡuvɛʁnɛ]; 22 March 1727 – 28 April 1794), comte de Paulin, was a French nobleman, general and politician.
His short political life came to an end after his nomination as the penultimate Secretary of State for War at the start of the French Revolution.
In 1787, he was appointed Lieutenant General and Commander-in-Chief of the provinces of Aunis, Saintonge, Poitou and Lower Angoumois, and Lieutenant-General of the Armies of the King on 5 December 1787 and Maréchal de camp.
The Comte de La Tour du Pin was appointed commander of the Provinces of Poitou and Saintonge, and then he was elected deputy to the Estates General on 26 March 1789.
[4] His grandson, Marquis Aymar de La Tour-du-Pin, sold all of the family's land in Cubzaguais to the father of Louis Henri Hubert Delisle in 1835.