About Jean-Baptiste Campenon
Lived 1819 – 1891 (aged 71). Jean-Baptiste Campenon was a French politician and military personnel.
General Jean Baptiste Marie Edouard Campenon (5 May 1819, Tonnerre – 16 March 1891, Neuilly-sur-Seine) was a French general and politician.
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.
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French Army general and politician (1819-1891)
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Jean-Baptiste Campenon was born on 4 May 1819 in Tonnerre.
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Jean-Baptiste Campenon died on 16 March 1891 in Neuilly-sur-Seine.
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Jean-Baptiste Campenon was a politician and military personnel.
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Jean-Baptiste Campenon was French.
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