Jean-Girard Lacuée | |
Birth Date: | 4 November 1752 |
Birth Place: | Hautefage-la-Tour (Lot-et-Garonne) |
Death Date: | 18 June 1841 |
Death Place: | Paris |
Allegiance: | France |
Branch: | Cavalry |
Rank: | Général de division |
Laterwork: | peer of France |
Jean-Girard Lacuée, count of Cessac (château de Lamassas),[1] near Hautefage-la-Tour in the arrondissement of Agen, 4 November 1752 - Paris, 18 June 1841) was a French general and politician, peer of France and Minister for War under Napoleon I of France. His name is inscribed on the south side (column 18) of the Arc de Triomphe.
Lacuée was born near Agen in 1752. He became a member of the Institute, minister of state in 1807, and minister of the administration of war in 1810. He died in 1841.