Aimé Reynaud

Aimé Félix St. Elme Reynaud (16 September 1808 – 6 July 1876) was a French vice admiral. He served during the Rhine crisis, the Crimean War, and the Second Opium War. He served in the North Atlantic Station during the American Civil War.

Early life Aimé Félix St. Elme Reynaud was born on 16 September 1808 in Lyon, France, to Nicolas François Reynaud. His father owned two sugar plantations, one in Saint-Louis-du-Sud and another in Port-au-Prince. Reynaud graduated first in his class from the Royal Navy College in Angoulême in 1827. He was the nephew of mathematician Antoine André Louis Reynaud. For a time, he was stationed in Martinique. In 1864, he became vice admiral and was living in Paris. Union General Benjamin Butler gave Reynaud the nickname "Fox" in his writings.

Reynaud died on 6 July 1876 in Brest, France.

Legacy In 1948, T. D. Stewart of the National Museum of Natural History attributed Reynaud as being the likely source of a group of deformed skulls collected in 1855 from the Isla de Sacrificios.