• Source: Jean-Baptiste des Gallois de La Tour

    • Jean-Baptiste des Gallois de La Tour (unknown-1747) was a French public official. He served as the First President of the Parlement of Aix-en-Provence from 1735 to 1747. He is remembered for his relative tolerance of witchcraft and Protestantism.


    Biography




    = Early life

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    Jean-Baptiste des Gallois de La Tour was born in an old French aristocratic family from Forez.


    = Career

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    He served as an Advisor in the Parlement of Paris, and later as an intendant in Brittany and Poitou.
    He served as the last First President of the Parlement of Aix-en-Provence from 1748 to 1771, and from 1775 to 1790.
    During the trial of the alleged witch Catherine Cadière and the Jesuit Fr Jean-Baptiste Girard (1680-1733), he was remarkably lenient.
    Although he opposed the Protestant uprising in Cabrières-d'Aigues, it has been suggested that he did so humanely. Indeed, he appealed to Louis Phélypeaux, comte de Saint-Florentin (1707-1777) for clemency, adding that those were mostly peasants and they should not be fined too heavily, lest they became indigent.


    = Personal life

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    He had a son, Charles Jean-Baptiste des Gallois de La Tour (1715-1802), who served as the last First President of the Parlement of Aix-en-Provence.
    He died in 1747.


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