The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-01-28
A CRIMEAN WARRIOR
DEATH OF FRANCOIS CANROBERT,
THE LAST MARSHAL OF FRANCE.
NJ. De Giers, the Russian Statesman,
Falls victim to Heart Disease
The Obituary Record.

PARIS Jan 27-Fleld Marshal Canrobert,
who is suffering from phlebtls, is morl-
bund.
Francois Coertain Canrobert. marshal of
France and a Senator, was born June Z,
1869, of good family, not in Brittany, as
has been frequently stated, but at st. Cyr,
in the Department OF Lot. He entered
the military school at ST. Cyr in 1896, and
having distinguished himself there Joined
the army as a private soldier. He saw
much service in Africa Louis Napoleon,
when President, appointed Canrobart one
of his aid-de-camps. and shortly after the
Wholesale prescriptions and imprisonments
which followed the coup d'etat of Dec. 2,
1851, gave him commission and very ex-
tensive orders to visit prisons and select
objects of his clemency. Upon the forma-
tion of the Army cf the East in 1854 he
was appointed to the command OF the
First Division in the Crimea His troops
took part in the battle of the Alma. and
he was himself wounded by a shell which
struck him the breast. Marshal st.
Arnaud resigned six days after the first
battle in the Crimea, and the command of
the Army of the East was transferred to
General Canrobert.
Although commander-in-chief General
Canrobert was again in the thickest of
the fight at Inkerman CNov. 81, and whilst
heading the impetuous charge of zouaves
was slightly wounded and had a horse
killed under him. In May, 1855, finding that
impaired health no longer permitted him to
hold the chief command in the Crimea, he
resigned to General Pelissier and soon after
He was treated with great distinction by
Emperor Napoleon, and was sent on mis-
sion to the courts of Denmark and Sweden.
At the beginning of the Italian war in 1859
General Canrobert received the command
of the Third Corps of the Army OF the
sod iraSa m
at Magenta, and at Solferino had to effect
a movement which brought valuable assist
ance to General Mel General Canrobert
was afterwards made a marshal of France;
grand member of the Legion of Honor and
an honory Knight of the Bath. In June,
and succeeded the Marshal De Castellane
in command of the Fourth corps darmee at
Lyons, Oct. IA. Subsequently he was APP
pointed commander-in-ch of the Army OF
Paris. At the time of the declaration of
war by France against Prussia, in 1870, he
had the command of army corps. Mar
shal Canrobert was shut up in Metz with
Marshal Bazaine, and on the capitulation
Germany. After the preliminaries of peace
had been signed he returned to France,
where & ne Vas Tb9ers WIN Who did nof howevar
appoint him to any command. After hav-
ing declined the offer. of a, candidature for
the National Assembly in 1874 in the Gil
ronde and in 1875 in the Lot, Marshal Cam
robert after some hesitation, allowed his
name to be proposed to the Department of
1876, and was elected by 212 votes out of
1856 electors. His term of office expired jan
uary, 1879, when he again became candi-
date for the Department of Lot, but was
defeated. Later, in the same year, how
ever he was elected Senator for Charente,
in the room of the late NJ. Hennessey, the
distiler. He accepted this unsolicited cleo
ton as homage paid TO the army in the
person of the Doyen of its chiefs" He is
the last marshal of France
Cause of NJ. De Giers's Death.
ST. PETERSBURG. Jan. 27.-The imme-
diate cause of the death Saturday of NJ.
De Giers. the Minister of Foreign Affairs,
was angina pectoris. complicated with in
flammation of the lungs. His last hours
were peaceful. He fell into deep sleep
early Saturday evening and passed away
almost imperceptibly that night The cata-
falque has been erected in the death cham
ber and requiems will be sung until the
funeral takes place on Wednesday next. Ii
is not likely that the death of NJ. De Giers
will involve any change of policy. all his
probable successors being in accord with the
Car in the desire for peace.