The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1895-01-28
M CANROBERT DYING.
The Last Marshal of France Lying
at Deaths Door.
HIS SIGNAL BRAVERY IN BATTLE

Though Holding High Position, He Led
His Soldiers Into Battles and Was Sew
eral Times wounded-His Record in the
Franco-Prussian War.
PARIS, Jan. 2s-The venerable Field
Marshal Canrobert, who has been suffer
ing for some time with phlebitis, is in a
moribund condition. His relations are at
his bedside waiting for the end
Francois Certain Canrobert, marshal of
France and a senator, was born June II,
1909, of good family, not in Brittany as
has been frequently stated, but at st. Cere,
in the department. of the Lot. He entered
the military school at St Cyr, in 1926, and
having distinguished himself, joined the
army as private soldier, He saw much
service in Africa.
Louis Napoleon, when president, ap-
pointed Canrobert one of his aide de camp,
and shortly after the wholesale proscrip-
tions and imprisonments, which followed
the coup d'etat of Dec. z, 1851, gave him a
commission and very extensive powers, to
visit the prisons and select objects of his
clemency. Upon the formation of the
army of the east in 1854 he was appointed
TO the command of the First division In the
Crimea, His troops took part in the bat
/ tie of the Alma and he was himself
wounded by a splinter of a shell which
struck him on the breast and hand. Mar
shall ST Arnaud resigned six days after the
first battle III the Crimea, and the COM
mand of the army of the east was trans
ferred to General Canrobert. Although
communicative chief, General Canrobert
was again in the thiclzest of the fight of
Inkerman (Nov. 81, and whilst heading
the impetuous charge of zouaves was
slightly wounded and had horse killed
under him.
In May, 1855, finding that impaired
health no longer permitted him to hold
the chief command in the Crimea he re-
signed to General Pelissier, and soon after
returned to France He was treated with
great distinction blythe Emperor Napoleon,
and was sent on mission to the courts of
Denmark and Sweden.
At the beginning of the italian war, in
1859, General Canrobert received the COM
mand Of the Third corps of the army of
the Alps. He exposed himself to great
danger at Magenta and Solferino to effect
a movement which brought valuable as
sistance to General Mel General Canro-
bert was afterwards made a marshal of
France, grand cross of the Legion of
.I | AAOhOAI uLiu OH hlllBllu OIdlN
| Cross of the Bath. In June, 1862, he COM
manded at the camp of Chalons, and sue
ceeded the Marshal de Castellane in com
mand of the Fourth corps d'armee at Ly-
ons Oct IA. Subsequently he was APP
pointed commander-in-chiefof of the army of
Paris.
At the time of the declaration of war by
France against Prussia in 1870 he had the
command of an army corps. Marshal
Canrobert was shut up in Metz with Mar
shall Bazaine, and on the capitulation OF
that fortress he was sent a prisoner into
Germany. After the prSliminaries OF
peace had been signed he returned to
France.
After having declined the offer of a can
didature for the national assembly in 1874
in the Gironde district and in 1875, in the
Lot district Marshal Canrobert, after
some hesitation, allowed his name to be
proposed for the department. of Lot at the
senatorial elections of Jan. 30, 1876, by the
party of the appeal to the people, and Oh
the second scrutiny he was elected by 21Z
votes out of 1856 electors. His term of Office
expired January, 1879, when he again be-
came a candidate for the department OF
Lot, but was defeated Later in the same
year, however, he was elected senator fol
Charente. In 1880 Marshal Canrobert
married Miss Macdonald, "a Scotch lady
He is the last marshal of France.