Jacques Retouret was an 18th-century French Catholic priest belonging to the Carmelite Order. Born in Limoges in 1746, he entered the monastery at the age of fifteen and later studied philosophy and theology. He served as a preacher across southwestern France before the political upheavals of the French Revolution. Because he opposed the state's interference in church autonomy, he was arrested and sentenced to hard labor. He died in August 1794 while being transported for deportation, succumbing to illness and harsh conditions near Rochefort.