Cluseret, Gustave Paul (1823–1900)

French soldier and politician. He fought in the revolution of 1848, the Crimean War, several expeditions under Garibaldi in 1860, and on the side of the Unionists in the USA 1860–61. In 1871 he was briefly at the head of the military operations of the Paris Commune, and narrowly escaped arrest by fleeing to London.

He returned to France in 1884 under an amnesty, and sat in the Chamber as deputy for Toulon 1888–89.