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LEBEUF, EDMOND (1809-1888)

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LEBEUF, EDMOND (1809-1888) , See also:marshal of See also:France, was See also:born at See also:Paris on the 5th of See also:November x809, passed through the Ecole Polytechnique and the school of See also:Metz, and distinguished himself as an See also:artillery officer in Algerian warfare, becoming See also:colonel in 1852. He commanded the artillery of the 1st See also:French See also:corps at the See also:siege of Sebastopol, and was promoted in 1854 to the See also:rank of See also:general of See also:brigade, and in 18J7 to that of general of See also:division. In the See also:Italian See also:War of 1859 he commanded the artillery, and by his See also:action at See also:Solferino materially assisted in achieving the victory. In See also:September 1866, having in the meantime become aide-de-See also:camp to See also:Napoleon III., he was despatched to See also:Venetia to See also:hand over that See also:province to See also:Victor See also:Emmanuel. In 1869, on the See also:death of Marshal See also:Niel, General Lebceuf became See also:minister of war, and earned public approbation by his vigorous reorganization of the War See also:Office and the See also:civil departments of the service. In the See also:spring of 1870 he received the marshal's See also:baton. On the See also:declaration of war with See also:Germany Marshal Lebceuf delivered himself in the Corps Legislatif of the historic saying, " So ready are we, that if the war lasts two years, not a gaiter See also:button would be found wanting." It may be that he intended this to mean that, given See also:time, the reorganization of the War Office would be perfected through experience, but the result inevitably caused it to be regarded as a See also:mere boast, though it is now known that the administrative confusion on the frontier in See also:July 187o was far less serious than was supposed at the time. Lebceuf took See also:part in the See also:Lorraine See also:campaign, at first as See also:chief of See also:staff (See also:major-general) of the See also:Army of the See also:Rhine, and afterwards, when See also:Bazaine became See also:commander-in-chief, as chief of the III. corps, which he led in the battles around Metz. He distinguished himself, whenever engaged, by See also:personal bravery and See also:good leadership. Shut up with Bazaine in Metz, on its fall he was confined as a prisoner in Germany. On the conclusion of See also:peace he returned to France and gave See also:evidence before the See also:commission of inquiry into the surrender of that stronghold, when he strongly denounced Bazaine. After this he retired into private See also:life to the See also:Chateau du Moncel near See also:Argentan, where he died on the 7th of See also:June 1888.

LE BON, See also:

JOSEPH (1765-1795), French politician, was born at See also:Arras on the 29th of September 1765. He became a See also:priest in the See also:order of the See also:Oratory, and See also:professor of See also:rhetoric at See also:Beaune. He adopted revolutionary ideas, and became a cure of the Constitutional See also:Church in the See also:department of Pas-de-See also:Calais, where he was later elected as a depute sup pleant to the See also:Convention. He became maire of Arras and administrateur of Pas-de-Calais, LE 351 and on the 2nd of July 1793 took his seat in the Convention. He was sent as a representative on See also:missions into the departments of the See also:Somme and Pas-de-Calais, where he showed See also:great severity in dealing with offences against revolutionaries (8th See also:Brumaire, See also:year II. to 22nd Messidor, year II.; i.e. 29th See also:October 1793 to loth July 1794). In consequence, during the reaction which followed the 9th See also:Thermidor (27th July 1794) he was arrested on the 22nd Messidor, year III. (loth July 1795). He was tried before the criminal tribunal of the Somme, condemned to death for abuse of his See also:power during his See also:mission, and executed at See also:Amiens on the 24th Vendemiaire in the year IV. (loth October 1795). Whatever Le Bon's offences, his condemnation was to a great extent due to the violent attacks of one of his See also:political enemies, Armand Guffroy; and it is only just to remember that it was owing to his courage that See also:Cambrai was saved from falling into the hands of the Austrians. His son, Emile le Bon, published a Histoire de Joseph le Bon et See also:des tribunaux revolutionnaires d'Arras et de Cambrai (2nd ed., 2 vols., Arras, 1864).

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