Adolphe Charles Le Flô

Adolphe Charles Le Flô ( born November 2, 1804 in Lesneven, Finistère department, † November 16, 1887 in Néchoat at Morlaix ) was a French general and statesman.

Life

Le Flô occurred in 1825 in the French army and became colonel in 1844. During the Second Republic, he was appointed in 1848 to brigadier general and ambassador to Saint Petersburg. In March 1849 he took his seat in the National Assembly, where he initially supported the policy of Louis Bonaparte, but later its declared enemy was. At the coup d'etat of December 2, 1851 Le Flô was arrested and exiled in January 1852 from France.

Le Flô lived since that time in Belgium and England before he was allowed in 1859 to return to France. After the fall of the Empire in 1870, the Government of National Defence Le Flô convened at the head of the War Department. He joined in 1871 in the National Assembly and was appointed on February 19, Thiers again at the head of the War Department. But in August he was sent back as ambassador to St. Petersburg. From this position, he was dismissed in 1879 and retired after that.