Jean-Frédéric de la Tour du Pin-Gouvernet

Jean-Frédéric de La Tour-du-Pin Gouvernet (22 March 1727, Grenoble – 28 April 1794, Paris) was a French nobleman and politician. 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 was the penultimate Secretary of State for War under the Ancien Régime before his execution in 1794 with his brother Philippe-Antoine.

He was the son of Jean de La Tour du Pin (), Comte de Paulin and Suzanne de La Tour. He married Marguerite Cécile Séraphine de Guinot, daughter of the Marquis de Monconseil, which gave him the viscounty of Ambleville.

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 Maréchal de camp in 1762. He was made 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 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. He represented the nobility of the sénéchaussée Saintes.

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