Mediapart points out that the hunt for RSA fraudsters has been - with great communication support - the flagship policy pursued by the department since the arrival of Lecornu.

[4] In 2017, Lecornu was appointed to be a Secretary of State to the Minister for the Ecological and Inclusive Transition by President Emmanuel Macron.

[7] On 14 January 2019, Lecornu was appointed with Emmanuelle Wargon to lead the "great national debate", organised in order to get out of the crisis caused by the yellow vests movement.

[citation needed] In this capacity, he held crisis talks on the French Caribbean territory of Guadeloupe in late 2021, in an effort to defuse tensions amid unrest stemming from the government's handling of the COVID-19 pandemic there.

Ukrainian defence minister Oleksiy Reznikov hoped that French tradesmen could be sent to Ukraine to service the artillery pieces.

[13] In March 2024, Lecornu announced that Les Forges de Tarbes would henceforth have the capacity to produce 4,000 artillery shells per month.

[15] In July 2024, Lecornu and his counterparts from Germany, Italy and Poland signed a letter of intent to develop ground-launched cruise missiles with a range beyond 500 km (310 miles).