Stanislas Marie Adelaide, comte de Clermont-Tonnerre

Stanislas Marie Adélaïde, comte de Clermont-Tonnerre (October 10, 1757 – August 10, 1792) was a French , military officer, and politician during the French Revolution.

Born in Mandres-aux-Quatre-Tours in the Duchy of Bar, in what is today the Meurthe-et-Moselle department in north-eastern France, Stanislas is the eldest son of François-Joseph, marquis de Clermont-Tonnerre (1726-1809) and his first wife, Mary Anne de Lentilhac de Gimel, and the grandson of Gaspard, duc de Clermont-Tonnerre (1688-1781), marshal of France. Following in the family tradition, he became colonel of the 1st regiment of cuirassiers.

In 1782 he married Mary Louise Josephine Delphine de Rosieres de Sorans (December 1766 - October 26, 1832, Paris), lady-in-waiting to Princess Élisabeth of France, sister of Louis XVI. She bore him three children, of whom only the eldest daughter survived into adulthood, marrying (in 1803) Esprit Louis Charles Alexandre Savary de Lancosme (1784-1853).

Prior to the beginning of the French Revolution he was a Freemason, a noted orator (having acquired practice in speaking in the Masonic Lodge), and a Liberal.

He was elected to the Estates-General of 1789 by the Second Estate of Paris, and was the spokesman of the minority of Liberal nobles (including the duc d'Orléans and the marquis de Lafayette) who joined the Third Estate on the 25th of June.

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