Amédée Despans-Cubières

Louis Amédée de Despans Cubières ( born March 4, 1786 in Paris; † August 6, 1853 ) was a French general.

Cubières made ​​with the campaigns of the Empire and in 1815 colonel. During the Restoration Obersteuereinnehmer first, then Colonel, he moved with after Morea and in 1829 became brigadier general of division in 1830 and a peer of France in 1840 and minister of war.

Due to corruption of the Minister of Public Works, Jean -Baptiste Teste to obtain the concession to a rock salt mine, and then for embezzlement of a part of the bribe Cubières in 1847 sentenced to civil degradation and 10,000 franc fine, but rehabilitated in 1852.