Marie-Alphonse Bedeau
Marie- Alphonse Bedeau ( born August 10, 1804 at Vertou Nantes, † October 30, 1863 in Nantes) was a French general and statesman.
Life
He was educated at the military school of La Fleche and then in the military school of Saint- Cyr in 1825 and joined as an officer in the army. Since 1831 captain adjutant of General Gerard, he took in 1832 to the capture of Antwerp part.
In December 1836 he went as commander of a battalion of the Foreign Legion to Algeria, participated in October 1837 the train to Constantine and received after the capture of the city in the same command. In October of that year he became lieutenant-colonel in the April 1838 High Commander of Bougie, in December 1839 colonel of a light infantry regiment. In March 1840 he participated with distinction in the expedition to Scherschel. In May 1841 promoted to Brigadier General, he was appointed by the Marshal Bugeaud with the management of military and political affairs at the border of Morocco in February 1842 struck on March 21, Abd el-Kader, made in 1844, the series of engagements with which the August 14 ended with the battle of Isly, and was appointed in September to major general and commander in chief of the province of Constantine.
In May 1845, he headed the expedition of Aures, subdued the rebellious tribes and suppressed in October of the year, the general revolt in the province of Oran. After he even attended the expedition of Bougie in 1847, he was July 1, 1847 Governor-General of Algeria, but resigned this post to the Duke of Aumale in October from.
At the time of the February Revolution of 1848 was Bedeau on vacation in Paris and received on 24 February by Bugeaud in command of a column of attack, which should prostrate on the boulevard the insurrection. But as he found the rebellion beyond expectation significantly, he did nothing and took after the fall of the July Monarchy by the provisional government to the supreme command of the army of Paris.
During the June insurrection, he commanded a division in the inner city and was severely wounded. Elected by the department under Loire in the Constituent National Assembly, he was appointed to the vice-president, which office he also in the Legislative Assembly, in which he represented Paris, held. Bedeau agreed as a deputy with the moderate right. In the coup d'etat of December 2, 1851 Bedeau with Cavaignacs and Lamoricière by Mazas, brought from thence to Ham. After his release, compelled to leave the country, he lived in retirement in Brussels until he returned as a result of the amnesty to France; he died October 30, 1863 in Nantes.
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- Military person (France )
- Secretary of War (France)
- Member of the Legion of Honour ( Grand Officer )
- Frenchman
- Born in 1804
- Died in 1863
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