Marie Alphonse Bedeau Marie Alphonse Bedeau ( born August 19 , 1804 , Vertou ( Lower Loire ) – October 29 , 1863 , Nantes ) was a French general , and minister . Life . He studied at the military school of Saint - Cyr , from the age of 16 , October 29 , 1820 until 1 October 1822 , as lieutenant - student , school of enforcement staff . He served in the 8th Cuirassiers , and the Lancers of the Royal Guard . On 1 October 1828 , he was promoted to lieutenant adjutant of the 2nd regiment of mounted artillery , and captain in the 5th light July 12 , 1831 . He was seconded to General Ferrier , where he became the adjutant . Attached to Gerard and Schramm , he was under their command , during the Belgian campaign of 1831 and 1832 . During the Belgian campaign , he received the Croix de Guerre January 16 , 1833 . With the reorganization of the army , in 1836 , he was appointed battalion commander of the Foreign Legion , training in Pau . Lieutenant - Colonel of the 17th Light , November 11 , 1837 , he fought in Algeria during several expeditions . He was at Setif , 16 and October 17 , 1838 and May 1839 . He was promoted to December 4 , 1839 to the rank of colonel in the 17th light . He was wounded twice at Cherchell . On May 2 , 1840 , the famous passage cervical Mouzaïa , he is responsible for repelling the attacks of the enemy in the rear of the army and resisted the troops of Abd - el - Kader in the marabout Sidi Moussa . He noted also in the supplies of Miliana . The following year , May 27 , 1841 , the Colonel was appointed brigadier and made available to the Governor General of Algeria , which supported operating on the border of Morocco . In 1844 he took part in the Battle of Isly , following which he was appointed lieutenant general and commander in chief of the province of Constantine , Algeria . He made two campaigns in spring and autumn of 1845 , and stands in 1847 in the expedition against the Kabyle of Bougie . On 10 July he was appointed Acting Governor - General and replaced by the Duke of Aumale . He was in Paris in February 1848 . On the 24th , at the head of the troops , he patrolled the streets of Paris , trying to restore order . The first regiments who marched along the boulevards , the butt in the air in front of the popular uprising , are guided by it . He commanded the Orleans chauseurs at the time of the attack on the station at Gabrielle . After his conduct on this occasion , he was being proposed as minister of war of the new regime . He declined the offer , but accepted the position of military governor of Paris and the term representing the Lower Loire to the Constituent Assembly , he became vice president . He was appointed representative of the Seine to the Legislature . Wounded in fighting the insurgency in June , he is a member of the right in the Legislature . Hostile to the coup of December 2 , 1851 , he was arrested the night of December 2 by Marshal St . Arnaud and imprisoned at Ham . He retired August 5 , 1852 , to Belgium where he lived until the amnesty of 1859 . He was a Grand Officer of the Legion of Honor . In 1883 the village Bedeau is named in his honor . It is located near Saida in the department of Oran , Algeria .