Louis Auguste Le Tonnelier de Breteuil
1730–1807 (age 77)
Biography
Louis Auguste Le Tonnelier de Breteuil (1730–1807) was a French politician and statesman of considerable prominence. His career spanned the final decades of the ancien régime through the Revolutionary period, during which he navigated the complex and often perilous waters of French political life with diplomatic acumen.
De Breteuil's long life witnessed the transformation of France from absolute monarchy to revolutionary republic, and his political legacy reflects this turbulent era. He was laid to rest in Choisel cemetery, where his memory remains connected to French aristocratic and political history.