Louis Marie Florent du Châtelet, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Louis Marie Florent du Châtelet

French diplomat

Date of Birth: 20-Nov-1727

Place of Birth: Semur-en-Auxois, Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, France

Date of Death: 13-Dec-1793

Profession: military personnel, politician, diplomat

Nationality: France

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio

Louis-Marie-Florent de Lomont d'Haraucourt, marquis later duc du Châtelet (20 November 1727, Semur-en-Auxois - 13 December 1793, Paris), was an aristocratic French Army general and diplomat of the Ancien Régime. The Duke served as Governor of Semur-en-Auxois in Burgundy as well as Ambassador to the Court of St James's, besides other appointments.
He was appointed to command the Regiment of French Guards shortly before the outbreak of the Revolution in 1789.
Châtelet was subsequently imprisoned and guillotined, in 1793 aged 66.