Augustin Boué de Lapeyrère

1852–1924 (age 72)

Biography

Admiral Augustin Boué de Lapeyrère brought rigorous planning and a zeal for modernization to the French Navy, serving before the war as Minister of Marine and then commanding the fleet to secure the Mediterranean in the early Great War.

His insistence on cohesion between ships and men preserved vital sea lines, and his memory is honored in the Vault of Governors among those who safeguarded France's coasts.

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