Louis François de Monteynard
Louis François, marquis de Monteynard ( born May 13, 1713 La Pierre; † May 3, 1791 in Paris) was a French military and statesman.
At the age of fourteen he entered the Régiment d' infantry ( Infantry Regiment) " Royal Vaisseaux ", which at this time of his cousin, the Chevalier de Marcieu was commanded. In this regiment he participated in all the major campaigns of Louis XV. in part. He successfully fought on the battlefields in Italy, Austria, on the island of Menorca, in Germany and in the Netherlands. 1759 culminated his military career in the promotion to lieutenant général, only one step below the Maréchal de France.
In 1771 he was chosen by Louis XV to the previous Minister of War ( Secrétaire d' État à la Guerre ), Étienne François, duc de Choiseul to replace. In the three years of his ministerial office, he launched a number of actions to improve the unenviable lot of the soldiers. For this he was mentioned by Voltaire as an example for Europe in his Philosophical Dictionary.
De Monteynard was very active in his home region, the Dauphiné. He was one of the founders of the People's Library in Grenoble and also defended the project in 1771 before the king. In the same year he sat down at the request of a patrician of Grenoble for a relocation of the Regional Parliament of Dauphiné from Valence to Grenoble. To date, the discussions in the town hall of Grenoble take place. In 1773 he left the rectory of his home town La Pierre resist build, and build a new church and set up the corresponding cemetery.
1774 Monteynard was appointed governor-general of Corsica. He also was the founder of the French Army Cavalry School at Saumur. From this the still existing military police squadron Sports Cadre Noir is then emerged after the French Revolution.
The rebuilt by him in 1775 in Castle Cruzille Tencin however, he has never been inhabited.
He died in Paris during the French Revolution.
Despite the 1788 enacted statutory prohibitions of funerals in churches, it is the poor of his neighborhood and former soldiers succeeded in the remains of the Marquis de Monteynard in the Church of the Jacobins to bury ( Eglise des Jacobins ) in Toulouse.
Others
After the Fort Monteynard Monteynard was named in the fortifications of Grenoble.