Louis Gustave le Doulcet, Comte de Pontécoulant

Louis Gustave le Doulcet, comte de Pontécoulant (17 November 1764 – 3 April 1853) was a French politician. He was the father of Louis Adolphe le Doulcet and Philippe Gustave le Doulcet.

Born in Caen on the 1764, he began a military career with the Compagnie Écossaise of the Garde du corps du Roi in 1778, becoming Lieutenant Colonel in 1791. A moderate supporter of the French Revolution, he was elected to the National Convention for the départment of Calvados in 1792, and became commissioner with the Army of the North during the French Revolutionary Wars.

He voted for the imprisonment of King Louis XVI during the war, and his banishment after the peace. He then attached himself to the Girondists, voting in favor of Jean-Paul Marat's prosecution, and was consequently declared an enemy of the people in August 1793, being pursued by the Reign of Terror and taking refuge to Switzerland.

In July, he had refused to defend his fellow Normand and Girondist Charlotte Corday, the assassin of Marat, who wrote him a letter of reproach on her way to the guillotine.

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