Jean Auguste Berthaut

Jean Auguste Berthaut (29 March 1817 Genlis – 24 December 1881 Paris) was a French general and French politician.

He graduated from Saint Cyr in 1837. He was promoted brigadeer general July 1870. He commanded the National Guard in Paris in 1870. He fought at the Battle of Le Bourget, Champagny, and Battle of Buzenval. He was appointed Minister of War, in the government of Jules Dufaure. He was appointed commander of the eighteenth army corps. He was a grand ofiicer of the Legion of Honor.[1][2]

References

  1. ^ "Gen. Jean Auguste Berthaut". The New York Times. December 27, 1881. http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?_r=1&res=9502E1DA113CEE3ABC4F51DFB467838A699FDE. 
  2. ^ Thompson Cooper (1879). Men of the time: a dictionary of contemporaries, containing biographical notices of eminent characters of both sexes. G. Routledge. http://books.google.com/books?id=GKUDAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA101&lpg=PA101&dq=Jean-Auguste+Berthaut&source=bl&ots=ByWwx6uEXP&sig=LdmHyx6oDJmAn-bVlChseF9oo4w&hl=en&ei=Q2BvS4L1M4GgMvW9gaIF&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=3&ved=0CA0Q6AEwAg#v=onepage&q=Jean-Auguste%20Berthaut&f=false. 
Political offices
Preceded by
Ernest Courtot de Cissey		 Minister of War
15 August 1876 - 23 November 1877		 Succeeded by
Gaétan de Grimaudet de Rochebouët
This article incorporates information from the revision as of 2007-11-8 of the equivalent article on the French Wikipedia.