Marie-Jean-Lucien Lacaze
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Marie-Jean-Lucien Lacaze (22 June 1860,
académicien
.
Biography
Lacaze was born in
École Navale
in 1879.
Lacaze served as capitaine de vaisseau in Senegal, India and Viet-Nam. He was
naval attaché in Rome and chief of staff to Admiral Germinet. He then took command of the Masséna, before serving as chief of cabinet to minister of the Navy Théophile Delcassé
.
During the
Dardanelles Campaign
. Lacaze was made Minister of the Navy in October 1915.
He was briefly acting War Minister in December 1916, between the resignation of Pierre Roques and the arrival of Hubert Lyautey from Morocco to take up the post. Whilst in post he oversaw the removal of Ferdinand Foch from command of Army Group North and the replacement of Joseph Joffre by Robert Nivelle as Commander-in-Chief of the French Army on the Western Front.[1]
He remained Minister of the Navy until 1917. He then went on to serve as préfet maritime of Toulon.
After retiring in 1922, Lacaze was elected to the
Académie française on 12 November 1936, obtaining Jules Cambon
's seat (seat n°40).
References
- Biography by the Académie française. (in French)
- ^ Greenhalgh 2014, pp172-3
Books
- Greenhalgh, Elizabeth (2014). The French Army and the First World War. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-1-107-60568-8.