Jean Paul Timoléon de Cossé, 7th Duke of Brissac

Jean Paul Timoléon de Cossé, 7th Duke of Brissac (12 October 1698, in Paris – 1784, in Sarrelouis), was a French general during the reign of King Louis XV.

He began his military career as a knight of the Order of Saint John of Jerusalem, becoming a garde de la marine in 1713.

He was rewarded for his good conduct during the French defeat at the Battle of Minden in 1759 by being made a Marshal of France.

He inherited the ducal title in 1732 when his elder brother, Charles Timoléon Louis (1693-1732), the 6th Duke of Brissac, died without a male heir.

In 1732, he married Marie Josèphe Durey (d. 1756), with whom he had three children: After Louis Hercule's death in 1792 without a surviving son, the ducal title passed to Timoléon de Cossé (1775-1848).