Franco-American soldier, born near Tours, France, on the 4th of June 1816. He was educated in his native country, and went to America in 1841, where he was successively engaged in the publication of the Revue du Nouveau Monde and the Courrier des États-Unis, two French newspapers. When the Civil War broke out he enlisted on the Northern side, and fought at Yorktown, Williamsburg, Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, Petersburg, and in several other important battles. He was brevetted brigadier-general; in 1867, assigned to the district of Dakota as colonel in the regular army, and later to those of Montana and Green River. He was in command in Louisiana during the post-reconstruction period of 1874. He was retired from service at his own request, being sixty-three years of age when he left the service. He published, in French, a volume on the Campaigns of the Army of the Potomac (1882).
