Jean-Baptiste Luton Durival
Jean-Baptiste Luton Durival was an 18th-century French historian, diplomat and Encyclopédiste.Life
His father was Jacques Durival, Officier de la garde robe de Son Altesse royale , married since 29 October 1712 to Anne Humblot, his mother. Overall, the family consisted of three sons, Nicolas-Luton Durival the elder one, then Jean-Baptiste Luton and Claude Durival and two daughters Catherine and Marie Anne Durival.
While his elder brother was secrétaire des conseils d’État et des finances under Stanisław Leszczyński, Jean-Baptiste took the post of first secretary of Foreign Affairs, premier secrétaire des affaires étrangères, under the Duke Étienne-François de Choiseul and led a diplomatic career.
In 1777, he was summoned to the Dutch Republic as Minister of France. He was married to Louise Élisabeth Dufrène.
Luton-Durival wrote several articles related to the Art militaire for the Encyclopédie. He was a member of the Académie de Stanislas.Works (Selection)
- Essai sur l’Infanterie française.
- Détails militaires.
- Le Point d’honneur
- Histoire du règne de Philippe, translated with Mirabeau from Watson. Amsterdam,
- Description de la Lorraine et du Barrois.
- Recueil des observations météorologiques.
