Nicolas Changarnier

France state institutions Monarchy and royalism 1793–1877 ○ Natural causes

General of the Party of Order who commanded both the Paris National Guard and the troops in Paris from 1848 to 1851

Born at Autun in 1793 and educated at Saint-Cyr, he made his name in the conquest of Algeria from 1830 and became lieutenant-general in 1843. In May 1848 he succeeded Cavaignac as governor of Algeria but was soon recalled on his election to the Constituent Assembly for the Seine. He received the command of the Paris National Guard and then of the troops in Paris as well, nearly 100,000 men, and as the armed force of the Party of Order upheld the power of the president. He ran in the presidential election of 1848 and won 0.06 percent. An avowed enemy of republican institutions, he opposed Louis Napoleon in January 1851, lost his double command, and was arrested at the coup in December and banished in 1852. He became a prisoner of war at Metz in 1870, sat in the National Assembly from 1871 on the committee that drafted a monarchical constitution, and became a life senator in 1875.

Also known as: Nicolas Anne Théodule Changarnier · Nicolas Anne Theodule Changarnier