Bedeau, MARIE ALPHONSE

Bedeau, MARIE ALPHONSE, a French general, born near Nantes in 1804, entered the army in 1825. Sent in 1836 to Algeria, as commandant of a battalion he took part in most of the military operations, and in 1847 was for three months governor of Algeria. In 1848 he was commissioned by Marshal Bugeaud to suppress the February revolution in Paris, but failed. He took office under the Provisional Government, and was named vice-president of the Constituent Assembly, always voting with the Republican party. Along with Cavaignac and Lamoricière he was arrested in December 1851, and went into exile; he died at Nantes, 30th October 1863.