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Patrice de MacMahon

Header: Patrice de MacMahon
Also known as: Patrice de MacMahon; primary name: MacMahon, Patrice de; other name: (Maréchal) MacMahon, Marie Edme Patrice Maurice
Details: individual; military/naval; politician/statesman; French; Male
Life dates: 1808-1893
Biography: President of the Third French Republic and officer; trained at Saint Cyr, 1827; promoted to Major General; 1852. Served in Algeria; led the assault on the Malakoff bastion, forcing the Russians to abandon Sebastopol, 1855. appointment as Senator, 1856. Having made him the Duke of Magenta and Marshal of France in 1859, Napoleon III appointed him Governor General of Algeria. 1864-1870. Recalled in 1870 and placed at the head of the 1st corps of the Rhine army; wounded and made prisoner at Sedan. Freed soon after, he was placed at the head of the Versailles army by Thiers, and his repression of the Commune ensured him the regard of the conservative members of the Assembly. After the fall of Thiers, elected President of the Republic (24th of May 1873). After the adoption of republican constitutional laws, he proclaimed the dissolution of the Assembly in 1877; after the elections of October 1877 which gave the majority to the Republicans once more, he submitted to the republican Dufaure Government and then resigned after the senatorial elections of January 1879.

Museum number: 1881,0108.1 |
Producer name: Designed by:Eugène OudinéDie Engraved or Modelled for Reducing Machine:Eugène Oudiné |
Production date: 1878 |
Production place: Made in:Paris (France)

Museum number: 1906,1103.778 |
Producer name: Designed by:Jules Clément ChaplainDie Engraved or Modelled for Reducing Machine:Jules Clément Chaplain |
Production date: 1873 |
Production place: Made in:Paris (France)

Museum number: 1940,0501.6 |
Producer name: Designed by:Eugène OudinéDie Engraved or Modelled for Reducing Machine:Eugène Oudiné |
Production date: 1878 |
Production place: Made in:Paris (France)

Museum number: 1906,1103.1413 |
Producer name: Designed by:Eugène OudinéDie Engraved or Modelled for Reducing Machine:Eugène Oudiné |
Production date: 1878 |
Production place: Made in:Paris (France)

Title: Bilder ohne Worte Humoristisch-Satyrisches Kriegs-Album |
Museum number: 1871,1209.4519 |
Producer name: Print made by:A Matthis ElberfeldPublished by:Verlag von J Loewenstein |
Production date: 1870

Title: Humoristisch-Satyrisches Kriegs-Album |
Museum number: 1871,1209.4517 |
Producer name: Print made by:A Matthis ElberfeldPublished by:Verlag von J Loewenstein |
Production date: 1870