Théophile Malo Corret de la Tour d'Auvergne (born 23 November 1743 in Carhaix , Brittany; died 28 June 1800) was a Grenadier officer in the French army. Although descended from the royalist Henri de la Tour d'Auvergne, Vicomte de Turenne, he fought in the revolutionary army in the French Revolutionary Wars, refusing promotion beyond the grade of captain. He was killed at the Battle of Oberhausen . Napoleon dubbed him the "first grenadier of France".

As a celtomaniac antiquarian, he introduced the words "dolmen" and "menhir" into general archaeological usage.

References

• Alain Schnapp, The discovery of the past, London, 1996.