Jean-Baptiste Campenon

General Jean Baptiste Marie Edouard Campenon (5 May 1819 in Tonnerre 16 March 1891 in Neuilly-sur-Seine) was a French general and politician.

General Jean-Baptiste Campenon

Life

He studied at the École spéciale militaire de Saint-Cyr, graduating on 1 October 1840 as a sous-lieutenant. He took part in the Crimean War, the French conquest of Algeria, campaigns in China and the Franco-Prussian War. A friend of Gambetta, he was minister for war several times in 1881, then in 1883 and 1885. He then became a sénateur inamovible. He also secretly translated The Perfumed Garden.[1]

Bibliography

  • G. Vapereau, «Campenon, Jean Baptiste Marie Edouard » in Dictionnaire Universel Des Contemporains, Paris : Hachette, 1880. (p. 10) OCLC 36982383
Political offices
Preceded by
Jean-Joseph Farre
Minister of War
14 November 1881 – 26 January 1882
Succeeded by
Jean-Baptiste Billot
Preceded by
Jean Thibaudin
Minister of War
9 October 1883 – 3 January 1885
Succeeded by
Jules Louis Lewal
Preceded by
Jules Louis Lewal
Minister of War
6 April 1885 – 7 January 1886
Succeeded by
Georges Ernest Boulanger


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