Bernard-Pierre Magnan

Bernard- Pierre Magnan ( born December 7, 1791 in Paris, † May 29, 1865 ) was a French general and Marshal of France.

Biography

Magnan occurred after the study of law in 1809 as a volunteer in the army, fought from 1809 to 1813 in Spain and made as a captain in the Imperial Guard in the campaign in France in 1814 and 1815 in Belgium. In 1817 he was a battalion commander in the 34th regiment of the line and was held in 1823 to Spain. Since 1827, Colonel of the 49th Regiment line, he participated in the campaign in Algeria in 1830 with distinction in part.

Asked for its energy-free behavior at a insurrection in Lyon for grabs in 1831, he became a general in Belgian services. After seven years of service in Belgium, he returned to France, initially commanded a brigade of the corps of observation in the Pyrenees, then in the Département du Nord and was entrusted with the suppression of labor unrest in Lille.

Although in 1840 the assassination of Prince Louis Napoleon Boulogner not aloof, he knew how to clean but in the Chamber of Peers of all suspicion, was promoted to major general in 1845 and was used twice as Inspector General.

After the February Revolution of 1848, he commanded an infantry division of the Alps army and hurried with this Paris in June to help. In the summer of 1851, he was commander in chief of the Paris army, with which he suppressed the phase caused by the coup d'état of 2 December of the same year uprising, which he was in 1852 appointed to the Senate and to the Marshal. With the establishment of the military divisions, he received the supreme command to Paris.

He died on 29 May 1865 in Paris.

• Frenchman
• Marshal of France
• Member of the Legion of Honour ( Grand Cross )
• Born in 1791
• Died in 1865
• Man
• Member of the National Assembly ( French Second Republic)