Sébastien Lecornu

The reshuffle left one key portfolio unchanged the armed forces ministry under the leadership of one of Macron's closest political confidants Sébastien Lecornu...

A few weeks later the new French foreign and defence ministers Catherine Colonna and Sébastien Lecornu also dropped in on the Nigérien president who had in the meantime visited his Ivorian and Chadian counterparts Alassane Ouattara and Mahamat Déby and signed a defence accord with Benin...

The armed forces brief has been entrusted to the centre-right politician Sébastien Lecornu hitherto minister for overseas France – where he recently saw his development strategy for the Indian Ocean island of Mayotte spurned by island leaders...