Paul Lacave Laplagne (1881-1982)
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Type of entity: Person
Name: Paul Lacave Laplagne
Date of birth: 1881
Date of death: 1982
Source of information: Special Collections
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The family of Lacave was an ancient family from Montesquiou in the Gers in southwest France, with a family seat at the Château de La Plagne. From the middle of the 19th century the Château housed a notable library of early and rare printed books, thanks to the collecting interests of Raymond Laplagne Barris (1786-1857) and Joseph Zangiacomi (1766-1846).
Paul Lacave Laplagne Barris, the great grandson of Raymond, was born in Paris in 1881, son of Joseph Barthélémy Lacave Laplagne Barris and his wife Clémentine Maynard Hutin. He attended the elite military academy of Saint-Cyr and served as an officer in the French army. In 1914 he was elected to the French National Assembly to represent Hautes Pyrénées as a radical, but was criticised on occasion because he had not relinquished his business interests. In 1919, he did not stand for re-election but became a member of the Conseil Supérieur des Colonies which formed part of the French colonial administration. In 1920 he married Henriette Roland-Gosselin but they had no children. He died at Le Chesnay, just outside Paris, in 1982.