Claude-François-Marie Rigoley, comte d'Ogny (9 January 1756 – 3 October 1790) was a French nobleman, military officer, patron of the arts, Freemason, and founder of the Concert de la Loge Olympique. Early life Claude-François was born in Dijon to Claude-Jean Rigoley, baron d'Ogny and Élisabeth d'Alencé. His father served as General Intendant of the Posts under both Louis XV and Louis XVI. The Comte d'Ogny distinguished himself within the Strasbourg Regiment of Artillery in 1770, and attained the rank of captain in the regiment of the Jarnac Dragoons in 1774, later retiring from military service on 1 November 1779 with a pension of 885 livres. On 25 January 1780, he was appointed Intendant général du poste et des coursiers de France by Louis XVI, alongside his father. On 13 February 1786, he married Flore-Louise Ménage de Pressigny, daughter of the eponymous ferme générale. French Revolution On 16 July 1789, after the Storming of the Bastille, his father took refuge in his , leaving the Comte d'Ogny alone at the head of the Post Office administration. This was reorganized in June 1790 by a series of decrees of the National Assembly, which nevertheless kept him in office as the result of a letter from Jacques Necker, dated 10 August 1790, informing the Comte d'Ogny that "His Majesty by virtue of the decree of the National Assembly had committed him to exercise the functions of the former Intendant of the Posts." He was associated with Lafayette and the events of 5 and 6 October 1789, in which, according to Antoine-Charles Tardieu, marquis de Maleissye, "it is M. d'Ogny, the son of the Superintendent of Posts, to whom the unfortunate Louis owed to not always had at his door the two heads of his unfortunate bodyguards " During the brief period while directing the post office alone, Rigoley secretly assured the security and regularity of correspondence between the King and the royal family, within the province and abroad, while they were detained at the Tuileries Palace under surveillance of the National Guard. These facts were discovered at the time of the trial of Louis XVI and recorded as incriminating evidence in the Valazé Report. In a letter to Mirabeau, Marie Antoinette wrote, during the summer of 1790, "M. d'Ogny is a reliable and faithful man". Musical career With his friend Étienne-Marie de La Haye, survivor of his father, the ferme générale Marin de