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Ernest Louis Octave Courtot de Cissey (September 12th 1810 - June 15th 1882) is a general and a Politician French.

Born with Paris, of a Burgundian family ruined by the Revolution, and nephew of the Marshal Davout, it initially studies with the Military academy of the Arrow then with Saint-Cyr military school. Lieutenant in 1832, he is captain in 1839. He is useful in Algérie, and becomes major in 1849 then lieutenant-colonel in 1850. He takes share as colonel with the Crimean War, and receives the rank of brigadier general after the Bataille of Inkerman. He is promoted major general in 1863.

During the war of 1870, it belongs to the army of the Rhine, and goes with Bazaine to Metz. Prisoner, it is released at the end of the war, and takes share with the repression of the Commune. Appointed as from July 1871, it is several times Minister for the War, and briefly president of the Council in a ministry of right-hand side and center right (May 22nd 1874 - March 10th 1875).

In 1880, whereas it ensures a command Nantes, one suspects it of being the lover of the baroness of Kaula, shown to be a spy with the pay of the Germany. The investigation clears it of the count of indictment of treason, but concludes that it wasted the secret funds of his ministry.

Young desilvered officer, it had married in Algiers the girl of the rear-admiral Rigodit, higher commander of the Fleet in the Mediterranean, and could count, in his military career, on the continuous supports of his father-in-law and of the Marshal's wife Davout.

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