Alphonse Jean Claude René Théodore de Cornulier-Lucinière (16 April 1811 – 23 March 1886) was a French naval officer.

He was made Officer of the Legion of Honour on 12 August 1854 after a cruise in the Black Sea during the Crimean War.

[7] When he took office Napoleon III told the court of Tự Đức, Emperor of Vietnam, that Cornulier spoke in his name.

When news reached Cornulier of the outbreak of the Franco-Prussian War he began preparing the defenses of Saigon to guard against an attack by Prussia.

[7] On 2 March 1874 he was named mayor of Nantes by presidential decree in place of M. Waldeck-Rousseau, who had resigned due to illness.