Changarnier, NICOLAS ANNE THÉODULE

Changarnier, NICOLAS ANNE THÉODULE, a French general, born at Autun in 1793, was educated at Saint-Cyr, and went in 1830 to Algeria, where for eighteen years he saw all the active service there was to be seen. On the proclamation of the Republic in 1848 he acted as provisional governor-general of Algeria, but returned to Paris to take command of the garrisons of Paris and of the National Guard. He did much to check the outbreaks of the anarchist party during 1849. In the Legislative Assembly he held a sort of neutral position between the Orléanists and the Legitimists, whilst opposing the Bonapartist party. At the coup d'état in December 1851, after being imprisoned in Ham, he went into exile till the Franco-Prussian war, when he offered his services to Napoleon III. He was in Metz with Bazaine, and, on its capitulation, retired to Brussels. He returned to France in 1871, entered the Assembly, and assisted M. Thiers in reorganising the army. He died at Versailles, February 14, 1877.