Armand Joseph Bruat

Armand Joseph Bruat ( born May 26, 1796 in Colmar, † November 19, 1855 at sea) was a French admiral.

The father of the admiral was Joseph Bruat from Grandvillars. He was second, in the possession of the castle ruins and Mösberg Florimont. Armand Joseph Bruat entered 1811 in the French navy in 1815 and served in Brazil and the West Indies. 1817 to 1820 he stayed with the French forces in the Levant, and was then to 1824, first in Senegal and then stationed in the Pacific.

As Lieutenant Bruat ship took part in the 1827 Battle of Navarino. In 1830 he was appointed commander of a brig, but was shipwrecked and then fell into Algerian captivity. After he was exchanged in 1831, he was appointed captain in 1831 and 1843 made ​​him governor of the Marquesas Islands. During this time he was also French charge d'affaires at the Queen Aimata Pomaré IV of Tahiti and brought them with pressure and threats for the recognition of French " protectorate ".

1849 Bruat Governor-General of the West Indies and in 1852 Vice Admiral. During the Crimean War he was in 1854 commander of the French fleet in the Black Sea. On his return to France Armand Joseph Bruat died on November 19, 1855 Lake of cholera.

Frédéric - Auguste Bartholdi created for a fountain on the Colmar Champ de Mars, a monument Bruats whose replica is still there.