Jean-Jacques-Germain Pelet-Clozeau (Toulouse, 15 July 1777- Paris, 20 December 1858)
A student at the School for Arts and Sciences in Toulouse, he enlisted in 1799, became a sergeant in 1800, serving also in the engineering corps of the armée d’Italie. A second lieutenant in the geographical engineers in 1801, a lieutenant in 1802, aide-de-camp to Masséna in 1805 (wounded in the head at Caldiero), a captain in 1807, a battalion chief in 1809 (after another wound), a colonel and baron of the Empire in 1811. He served in the Kingdom of Naples, in Germany, in Portugal and in Russia, where he had his legs and an arm broken by three Basques; then in Germany and in France. From brigadier, he became assistant general in the guard in 1813, and served during the Hundred Days. Dismissed, he was employed again from 1818 to 1821. In 1830 he was appointed director of the General Staff school, promoted to lieutenant general, and finally to Director of the War Depot. Under his directorship publication of the General Staff Map began. A member of Parliament of the Haute-Garonne from 1831 to 1837, he sat on the centre-left. Severely wounded in the Fieschi assassination attempt in 1835, he was named a Peer of France in 1837. He abandoned the directorship of the Depot in 1848, served as member of Parliament for the Ariège at the Legislative Assembly in 1850, supporting Louis-Napoleon Bonaparte. He was created a senator in 1852, a member of the Academy of moral and political Sciences in 1855. He sat on the commission that oversaw publication of Napoleon I’s letters.