Jeannou Lacaze, was a French General d'armee of the French Army and Chef d'Etat-Major des armees, who served in the French Foreign Legion.
12 Facts About Jeannou Lacaze
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Jeannou Lacaze was born in French Indochina, the son of a colonial functionary and an annamite of Chinese origin.
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Jeannou Lacaze led his regiment to Tchad during Operation Epervier in 1969.
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Jeannou Lacaze won the confidence of the President of France Valery Giscard d'Estaing who named him Military governor of Paris in 1980, and Chief of the general staff headquarters of the Armies on 1 February 1981, a couple of months before the election of Francois Mitterrand.
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Titular of the Volunteer combatant's cross and the Combatant's Cross, general Jeannou Lacaze is a Grand Officer of Legion d'honneur.
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Jeannou Lacaze is decorated with the Cross for Military Valour with three stars and the Croix de guerre des theatres d'operations exterieures with one palm and two stars.
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Jeannou Lacaze acted as a "character witness" during the trial of mercenary Bob Denard in 1999.
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Jeannou Lacaze was a European deputy from from 1989 to 1994, under the etiquette of the National Centre of Independents and Peasants CNIP before creating his own political party of the Independent Union UDI.
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Jeannou Lacaze exercised as well the honorary presidency association Paris solidarite metro.
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Jeannou Lacaze died on Monday 1 August 2005 at the age of 81, his funeral procession took place on 4 August in the cours d'honneur at Les Invalides in Paris.
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Jeannou Lacaze was cited 6 times out of which one was at the orders of army.
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Jeannou Lacaze is the author of a book that appeared in 1991 "Le President et le champignon", where he exposed his conception of the defense of France, after the fall of communism.