WGaudensi Allar was a French architect.
WViscount Armand-Octave-Marie d'Allonville was a French general of division which distinguished himself during the French conquest of Algeria and the Crimean War. He was later appointed senator.
WLouis Jean-Baptiste d'Aurelle de Paladines was a French general.
WLouis-Achille Baraguey d'Hilliers, 1st Comte Baraguey d'Hilliers, was a Marshal of France and politician.
WFrançois Achille Bazaine was an officer of the French army. Rising from the ranks, during four decades of distinguished service under Louis-Philippe and then Napoleon III, he held every rank in the army from Fusilier to Marshal of France. From 1863 he was a Marshal of France, and it was in this role that he surrendered the last organized French army to Prussia during the Franco-Prussian war, during the siege of Metz.
WJerome Napoleon Bonaparte II was a French-American military officer who served in the United States Army and later in the French Army. He was a member of the American branch of the Bonaparte family.
WNapoléon Joseph Charles Paul Bonaparte, usually called Napoléon-Jérôme Bonaparte or Jérôme Bonaparte, was the second son of Jerome, King of Westphalia, youngest brother of Napoleon I, and his second wife Catharina of Württemberg. An outspoken liberal, he became the de facto head of the House of Bonaparte from 1879 to his death. He was not considered a legitimate pretender to the throne by many Bonapartists, due to his father's previous marriage without divorce. They instead preferred his son Victor. From the 1880s he was one of the stronger supporters of General Georges Boulanger, together with other monarchist forces.
WPierre François Joseph Bosquet was a French Army general. He served during the French conquest of Algeria and in the Crimean War of 1853-1856; returning from Crimea he was made a Marshal of France and a Senator.
WLouis Edouard Bouët-Willaumez was a French admiral.
WCharles Denis Sauter Bourbaki was a French general.
WAuguste Henri Brincourt was a General of the French Army. He notably served during the French Intervention in Mexico and the Franco-Prussian War and was a recipient of the Grand Cross of the Légion d'honneur.
WArmand Joseph Bruat was a French admiral.
WPrince Camille Armand Jules Marie de Polignac was a French nobleman who served with the Confederates in the American Civil War, living on to become the last surviving Confederate major-general.
WJacques Camou was a French general in the armies of Emperor Napoleon III.
WFrançois Marcellin Certain de Canrobert was a French Marshal. He demonstrated ability during the Second French Empire while participating in the Battle of Alma, the Battle of Magenta, the Battle of Solferino and the Battle of Gravelotte. A staunch supporter of Napoleon III, he became, under the French Third Republic, one of the leading figures in the Bonapartist party and chairman, from 1876 to 1894, of the Senate within the French parliamentary group "Call upon the people".
WErnest Louis Octave Courtot de Cissey was a French general and Prime Minister.
WJustin Clinchant was a French Army general of the 19th century.
WJean Danjou was a decorated captain in the French Foreign Legion. He commanded the two lieutenants and 62 legionnaires who fought the legendary Battle of Camarón during the French intervention in Mexico, during which he was killed.
WPierre Philippe Marie Aristide Denfert-Rochereau,, was a French serviceman and politician. He achieved fame by successfully defending besieged Belfort during the Franco-Prussian War: this earned him the soubriquet the Lion of Belfort.
WAuguste Febvrier-Despointes was a French counter admiral. He served as the first commandant of New Caledonia from 24 September 1853 to 1 January 1854.
WPierre Léonce Détroyat (1829-1898) was a French naval officer, journalist, and author.
WCharles Abel Douay was a general in the French army during the reign of the Emperor Napoleon III. He commanded troops in numerous French campaigns in Europe and overseas. He was killed in battle at the age of sixty-one, near Wissembourg during the Franco-Prussian War.
WFélix Charles Douay was a general in the French army whose career spanned the reign of King Louis-Philippe, the Second French Republic, the Second French Empire of Napoleon III, and the early years of the Third Republic. He was the brother of another career soldier, General Abel Douay.
WAbel-Nicolas Georges Henri Bergasse du Petit-Thouars was a French sailor, vice-admiral, saver of Lima and a hero in Peru.
WCharles Jean Jacques Joseph Ardant du Picq was a French Army officer and military theorist of the mid-nineteenth century whose writings, as they were later interpreted by other theorists, had a great effect on French military theory and doctrine.
WAuguste-Alexandre Ducrot was a French general. Ducrot served in the Crimean War, Algeria, the Italian campaign of 1859, and as a division commander in the Franco-Prussian War.
WJean-Baptiste Onésime Dutrou-Bornier was a French mariner who settled on Easter Island in 1868, purchased much of the island, removed many of the Rapa Nui people and turned the island into a sheep ranch.
WPierre-Louis Charles de Failly was a French general.
WÉlie Frédéric Forey was a Marshal of France.
WCharles Auguste Frossard was a French general.
WRené Gillotin (1814-1861) was a French naval officer and painter. He was born in Normandy and entered the naval school at Brest, France. His first campaign was to South America in 1833, with a first stop at Gorée in Senegal. 1844-1846 he visited French Polynesia on the frigate La Virginie. After promotion to lieutenant, he visited Senegal again in 1852 on the steam frigate Eldorado. He served in the Crimean War as a commander, and made many drawings and watercolor paintings throughout his naval career.
WAngel Laurent Giovaninelli, born on September 15, 1837, in Pastoreccia-di-Rostino in Corsica and died on August 28, 1903, in Frénois (Meuse), was a major general of the French army.
WAuguste Gougeard was a French counsellor, naval officer and politician. He rose to captain and campaigned in Africa, the Crimea and the Far East. He was made général de division of the auxiliary army to the armée de la Loire, under Alfred Chanzy's command. A friend of Léon Gambetta, he served as Naval Minister from 14 November 1881 to 29 January 1882 in Gambetta's temporary ministry. He was a commander of the Légion d'honneur. He wrote several works, including a series on the French Navy and its institutions.
WFerdinand-Alphonse Hamelin, French admiral, was born in Pont-l'Évêque, Normandy. He is the nephew of Jacques Félix Emmanuel Hamelin, a successful rear admiral in the French Navy of the Napoleonic era.
WJean Bernard Jauréguiberry was a French admiral and statesman.
WPierre Jean Joseph Jeanningros was a French général, famous for having commanded the French Foreign Legion.
WJules François Émile Krantz was a French naval officer and politician. In Vietnamese royal records, he was referred as Ca Răng (哥𪘵).
WJoseph Édouard de La Motte-Rouge' was a French general and politician.
WErnest Marc Louis de Gonzague Doudart de Lagrée was the leader of the French Mekong Expedition of 1866-1868.
WEdmond Leboeuf was a marshal of France. He joined the French army as an artillery officer. He fought in Algeria, the Crimean War (1853–1856) and the Italian War of 1859. In 1869 he became minister of war and in the spring of the next year was promoted to Marshal of France. He fought in the Franco-Prussian War (1870) being taken prisoner when Metz garrison surrendered to the Prussians. On his return to France, after the end of hostilities, he gave evidence to a commission into the surrender of Metz, and then retired into private life.
WBarthélémy Louis Joseph Lebrun was a French Army officer of the Second French Empire.
WSébastien-Nicolas-Joachim Lespès was a French admiral who played an important role in naval operations during the Sino-French War, as second-in-command of Admiral Amédée Courbet's Far East Squadron.
WMarie Edme Patrice Maurice de MacMahon, marquis de MacMahon, duc de Magenta was a French general and politician, with the distinction of Marshal of France. He served as Chief of State of France from 1873 to 1875 and as President of France, from 1875 to 1879.
WAdolphe Niel was a French Army general and statesman, also Marshal of France.
WCharles Guillaume Marie Appollinaire Antoine Cousin-Montauban, 1er Comte de Palikao was a French general and statesman.
WFrançois-Edmond Pâris was a French admiral, notable for his contribution to naval engineering during the rise of the steam, for his books, and for his role in organising the Musée national de la Marine.
WAlexandre Ferdinand Parseval-Deschenes was a French admiral and senator.
WAimable-Jean-Jacques Pélissier, 1st Duc de Malakoff, was a Marshal of France. He served in Algeria and elsewhere, and as a general commanded the French forces in the Crimean War.
WLouis Pierre Alexis Pothuau was a French naval officer and politician. He served as deputy for Paris, then as a sénateur inamovible. He was twice Minister for the Navy and the Colonies and ended his career as France's ambassador to the United Kingdom.
WJustin Jean-Baptiste Hippolyte Pradelles was a French landscape painter. Initially working as a draughtsman and watercolourist, Pradelles later moved into painting, principally producing regional landscapes but also genre and military scenes.
WAuguste Michel Étienne Regnaud de Saint-Jean d'Angély, later 2nd Count Regnaud de Saint-Jean d'Angély was a Marshal of France, soldier and politician.
WAdmiral Pierre-Louis-Charles Rigault de Genouilly was a French naval officer. He fought with distinction in the Crimean War and the Second Opium War, but is chiefly remembered today for his command of French and Spanish forces during the opening phase of the Cochinchina campaign (1858–62), which inaugurated the French conquest of Vietnam.
WHenri Laurent Rivière was a French naval officer and a writer who is chiefly remembered today for advancing the French conquest of Tonkin in the 1880s. Rivière's seizure of the citadel of Hanoi in April 1882 inaugurated a period of undeclared hostilities between France and Dai Nam that culminated one year later in the Tonkin campaign (1883–1886).
WArmand-Jacques Leroy de Saint-Arnaud was a French soldier and Marshal of France. He served as French Minister of War until the Crimean War when he became Commander-in-chief of the army of the East.
WPierre André Taillant was a French officer known for the heroic defense of Phalsbourg during the Franco-Prussian War at the Siege of Phalsbourg.
WLouis-Casimir Teyssier was a French commander.
WLouis-Jules Trochu was a French military leader and politician. He served as President of the Government of National Defense—France's de facto head of state—from 4 September 1870 until his resignation on 22 January 1871.
WÉlie, Jean de Vassoigne was a French general who distinguished himself in the Baltic in 1854 against the Russians in the Battle of Bomarsund, then commanded from 1854 to 1856 the occupation corps of Greece during the Crimean War. Then in 1859 and 1860, he went to campaign in China commanding the 3e régiment de Marine brigade of General Collineau. He was then sent to Tonkin and Annam in Cochinchina from 1860 to 1861. On February 27, 1861, during the Battle of Ky Hoa, he was seriously injured by an arrow. In 1870, he took part in the Battle of Sedan, during the Franco-Prussian War.
WJoseph Vinoy was a French soldier.