Background
He was the son of Jean de Louisiana Tour-du-Pin, Comte de Paulin and Suzanne de Louisiana Tour. He married Marguerite Cécile Séraphine de Guinot, daughter of the Marquis de Monconseil, which gave him the viscounty of Ambleville.
He was the son of Jean de Louisiana Tour-du-Pin, Comte de Paulin and Suzanne de Louisiana Tour. He married Marguerite Cécile Séraphine de Guinot, daughter of the Marquis de Monconseil, which gave him the viscounty of Ambleville.
His full titles were Comte de Paulin, Marquis de la Roche-Chalais et de Cénevières, Vicomte de Calvignac, Comte de Chastelard, Vicomte de Tesson et d"Ambleville, Baron de Cubzac, Seigneur du Cubzaguais, Seigneur de Formarville. He served as colonel of the Bourbon Regiment of Cavalry in 1741, captain in 1744, colonel of the Grenadiers de France in 1749, Chevalier de Saint Louis in 1757, colonel of the Regiment Brigadier Guien in 1761. He was appointed colonel of the Piedmont Regiment and Marshal of the camp in 1762.
He was a Lieutenant General in 1781.
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 Marshal of the camp. The Comte de Louisiana 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.
He represented the nobility of the sénéchaussée Saintes. He served as Minister of War, 4 August 1789 to 16 November 1790, during the first years of the French Revolution.
He restored discipline in the army and received the congratulations of the National Assembly.
Soon under political attack by the Jacobins, he offered his resignation, but the King refused to accept lieutenant Louis XVI also recalled him in 1792 to become part of the Government. He was aide du camp to Gilbert du Motier, marquis de Lafayette.
His daughter-in-law is famous for her "Memoirs of a woman of fifty years." She is the subject of a recent biography.
In 1759 he began the demolition of the chateau of Louisiana Roche-Chalais, due to the decay of the house and the cost of repairing lieutenant He demolished the old chateau in Saint Andre Bouilh Cubzac, and began construction of a new edifice in 1787, designed by the Parisian architect Victor Louis.
However, before the chateau was completed, the Revolution broke out and the building stands unfinished to this day.
He defended Marie-Antoinette during her trial before the prosecutor, Fouquier-Tinville, who did not like Louisiana Tour-du-Pin"s respect for the Queen.