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See also:TROCHU, See also:- LOUIS
- LOUIS (804–876)
- LOUIS (893–911)
- LOUIS, JOSEPH DOMINIQUE, BARON (1755-1837)
- LOUIS, or LEWIS (from the Frankish Chlodowich, Chlodwig, Latinized as Chlodowius, Lodhuwicus, Lodhuvicus, whence-in the Strassburg oath of 842-0. Fr. Lodhuwigs, then Chlovis, Loys and later Louis, whence Span. Luiz and—through the Angevin kings—Hungarian
LOUIS JULES (18'5–'896) , See also:French See also:general, was See also:born at Palais (Belle-Ile-en-Mer) on the '2th of See also:March 1815. Educated at St Cyr he received a See also:commission in the See also:Staff See also:Corps in 1837, was promoted See also:lieutenant in '840, and See also:captain in 1843. He served as a captain in See also:Algeria under See also:Marshal Bugeaud, who, in recognition of his gallantry in the battles of Sidi Yussuf and See also:Isly,, made him his aide-de-See also:camp and entrusted him with important commissions. He was promoted See also:major in 1845, and See also:colonel in 1853. He served with distinction throughout the See also:Crimean See also:campaign, first as aide-de-camp to Marshal St See also:Arnaud, and then as general of See also:brigade, and was made a See also:commander of the See also:Legion of See also:Honour and general of See also:division. He again distinguished himself in command of a division in the See also:Italian campaign of '859, where he won the See also:grand See also:cross of the Legion of Honour. In 1866 he was employed at the See also:ministry of See also:war in the preparation of See also:army reorganization schemes, and he published anonymously in the following See also:year L'Armee franraise en 1867, a See also:work inspired with Orleanist sentiment, which ran through ten See also:editions in a few months and reached a twentieth in 1870. This brochure brought him into See also:bad odour at See also:court, and he See also:left the war See also:- OFFICE (from Lat. officium, " duty," " service," a shortened form of opifacium, from facere, " to do," and either the stem of opes, " wealth," " aid," or opus, " work ")
office on See also:half-pay, and was refused a command in the See also:- FIELD (a word common to many West German languages, cf. Ger. Feld, Dutch veld, possibly cognate with O.E. f olde, the earth, and ultimately with root of the Gr. irAaror, broad)
- FIELD, CYRUS WEST (1819-1892)
- FIELD, DAVID DUDLEY (18o5-1894)
- FIELD, EUGENE (1850-1895)
- FIELD, FREDERICK (18o1—1885)
- FIELD, HENRY MARTYN (1822-1907)
- FIELD, JOHN (1782—1837)
- FIELD, MARSHALL (183 1906)
- FIELD, NATHAN (1587—1633)
- FIELD, STEPHEN JOHNSON (1816-1899)
- FIELD, WILLIAM VENTRIS FIELD, BARON (1813-1907)
field at the outbreak of the Franco-See also:German War. After the earlier disasters in '870, he was appointed by the See also:emperor first commandant of the troops of Chalons camp, and soon afterwards (Aug. 17) See also:governor of See also:Paris and commander-inchief of all the forces destined for the See also:defence of'the See also:capital, including some 120,000 See also:regular troops, 8o,000 mobiles, and 330,000 See also:National See also:Guards. He worked energetically to put Paris in a See also:state of defence and throughout the See also:siege showed himself•a See also:master of the passive defensive. At the revolution of the 4th of See also:September he became See also:president of the See also:government of national defence, in addition to his other offices. His " See also:plan " for defending the See also:city raised expectations doomed to disappointment; the successive sorties made under pressure of public See also:opinion were unsuccessful, and having declared in one of his proclamations that the governor of Paris would never capitulate, when See also:capitulation became inevitable he resigned the governorship of Paris on the 22nd of See also:January 1871 to General See also:Vinoy, retaining the See also:presidency of the government until after the See also:armistice in See also:February. He was elected to the National See also:Assembly by eight departments, and sat for See also:Morbihan. In See also:October he was elected president of the See also:council general for Morbihan. In See also:July 1872 he retired from See also:political See also:life, and in 1873 from the army. He published in 1873 Pour la verite et pour la See also:justice, in See also:justification of the government of national defence, and in 1879 L'Arnee franeaise en 1879, See also:par un officier en retraite, a sort of supplement to his former work of 1867. He died at See also:Tours on the 7th of October 1896.
End of Article: TROCHU, LOUIS JULES (18'5–'896)
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