Sergent Blandan

Sergent Blandan by Charles Gauthier, c.1886–87. Rue Sergent Blandan, Nancy.

Jean Pierre Hippolyte Blandan (; 9 February 1819 – 12 April 1842) was a French soldier, known for his historic resistance on the battlefield at Boufarik in Algeria. He was posthumously made a Chevalier of the Legion of Honour.

Career Blandan joined the French Army at the age of eighteen, and served in the conquest of Algeria. He was appointed Corporal on 6 August 1839, and promoted to Sergent on 1 January 1842. They found only five soldiers still fighting, the others all being dead or wounded. Blandan died of his wounds that night in the hospital in Boufarik, at the age of 23. In 1990, it was moved again to Rue du Sergent Blandan, Nancy. and a statue was placed on the Place Sathonay in Lyon.

The creation of Parc du Sergent Blandan in the 3rd, 7th and 8th arrondissements of Lyon was due to start in 2012. It will cover 17 hectares.

His death was depicted by Louis-Théodore Devilly in 1882. Presented at the Salon des artistes français in 1882, the painting was purchased by the State, which donated it to the Museum of Fine Arts in Nancy, of which Devilly was the curator.