French soldier, born in Nevers on the 24th of February 1817. He entered the army in 1840 as a lieutenant, and at the time of the battle of Sedan, was a general in command of a division. At that battle he was taken prisoner and imprisoned. He escaped, however, and reached Paris in time to take an active part in the last battles of the Franco-Prussian war, and to help suppress the Commune. He afterward was elected to the Assembly, and used his influence against the Empire. He published The Day of Sedan (1871); The Defense of Paris (1878), and works of minor importance. He died in Paris on the 17th of August 1882.
