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LOUIS
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BAPTISTE AURELLE DE PALADINES  D' (1804-1877),
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French
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general, was
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born at Malzieu,
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Lozere, on the 9th of
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January 1804 . He was educated at St Cyr, and entered the
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army as sub-
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lieutenant of
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foot in 1824 . He served with distinction in
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Algeria between 1841 and 1848, becominglieut.-
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colonel and an officer of the
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Legion of
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Honour; took
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part in the
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Roman
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campaigns of 1848 and 1849, and was made colonel . He served as general of
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brigade throughout the
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Crimean
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War of 1854-56, being promoted general of
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division and
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commander of the Legion of Honour . During the
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campaign in
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Lombardy in 1859 he commanded at
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Marseilles, and superintended the despatch of men and stores to the seat of war, and for his services he was made a
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grand officer of the Legion of Honour . Placed on the reserve
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list in 1869, he was recalled to the Marseilles command on the outbreak of the Franco-
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German War of 1870-71 . After the first
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capture of
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Orleans by the Germans, he was appointed by the
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Government of
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National
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Defence, in
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November 1870, to the command of the Army of the
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Loire . He was at first very successful against von der Tann-Rathsamhausen, winning the
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battle of Coulmiers and compelling the Germans to evacuate Orleans, but the
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capitulation of
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Metz had set
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free additional German troops to oppose him, and, after his defeat at
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Beaune la Rolande and subsequent unsuccessful fighting near Orleans, resulting in its recapture by the Germans in
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December, Aurelle retreated into the
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Sologne and was superseded . After the
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armistice he was elected to the National
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Assembly by the departments both of
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Allier and
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Gironde . He sat for Allier and was one of the fifteen
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officers chosen to assist in the
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peace negotiations . He was decorated with the grand
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cross of the Legion of Honour, and was given the command at Bordeftux, but retired in 1872 . Elected a
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life senator in 1875, he supported the monarchical
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majority of 1876 .

He died at

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Versailles on the 17th of December 1877 . He was the author of La Premiere Armee de la Loire, published in 1872 .

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