The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-08-01
FRENCH GENERALS.
Sketches of Generals LebGuE, FrOssard, aud
BOurbaki.

Sketches Of Generals Lebouf FrOssard, aud
Below we give sketches of three leading
French generals who are destined to figure
prominently in the war;
Marshal Edmond Lebnuf,
who was recently commissioned as Major
General by the Emperor, and holds the chief
command of the army under the latter, being
charged with the general outlines of the French
campaign, was born on November 8, 1909. He
ives educated in the Polytechnic School and at
the military and artillery school at Metz or
Mayence, which town is now in the very heart
of the district where the principal operations
win take place during the campaign on which
he is now engaged He graduated in 1888 and
Immediately became a lieutenant of artil-
lery. He was very rapidly promoted. For
service at the engagement of the Iron
Gates in Algeria, which attracted the attention
of the Orleans princes, he obtained the rank of
captain in 1887 From 1S4S to 1850 he was
second in command of the Polytechnic School.
He became chef d. eScddron in 1885, and colonel
in 1852. In 1854 he went to the Crimea as head
OF the artillery staff, with the rank of general
of brigade or major-general. BE took promi-
nent part in the battle of Alma, and was made
general of division lieutenan t-general in 1857.
In the Italian campaign of 1859 the whole of the
di
mand. The French say that the success at the
battle of Solferino was due in great measure to
the timely aid of Lebeuf in bringing up an
overwhelming number of guns to bear on the
Austrian right. General LebGuf afterwards
became aid.de camp to the Emperor and mem
ber of the Artillery Committee. In 1866 he was
sent to. Venice as Imperial Commissioner, and in
1857 was sent to replace General Dc Goyon at
Tolouse, and to command the 9th Army Corps.
By an imperial decree in the same year he was
called to succeed Marshal Mel as Minister of
War and member of the Cabinet which offices
were made vacant by the death of that person
age. These are now again vacated by the de-
parture of the incumbent to supervise the cam
paign. The Cabinet office Lebeuf had before
resigned to make way for the new Cabinet COM
bination of NJ. Emile Olivier, butlhls portfolio
was returned to him in the ministerial change
of June 3, 1870. General Lebeuf was elected a
member of the General Council of Orne for the
Canton of Trun Officer of the Legion of Honor,
1910, commander 11th August, 1850, was made
Grand Officer 25th August, 1859, and received
the Grand Cross 2lst December, 1866.
He was created Marshal of France in March,
1870. This change of the Minister of War TO a
Marshal was not approved of by the army, be-
cause of supposed want of experience, but the
will of Napoleon and the claims of his high
position as minister oyereame all opposition.
The General is said to be physically the biggest
nan in the French army. The world viii soon
have chance to see for itself whether he Is
competent for the high position which he has
now reached.
General Charles Augustus FrOssard,
who is now In command OF the I'd Corps, at
81. Avoid, was born April 2eth, 1907, was from