Lucien Lacaze

Lucien Lacaze (22 June 1860 in Pierrefonds, Oise) is a admiral and French politician.
Having participated in many naval missions in the conquest of Indochina and taking part in the Great War, he became the Minister of the Navy during much of the conflict, adopting a naval defense tactic against the german Uboots who made this proof and reduces naval casualties of the Allied Navy. Leaving the government in 1917 in response to a possible return of parliamentary control over maritime affairs he became maritime prefect of Toulou. Partisan of the coup d'état of 25 May 1925, he joined the Millerand government at the request of Hubert Lyautey and launches an amibitious policy of armament and modernization of the French Navy.
Category:French figures