jean, baptiste, campenon, general, jean, baptiste, marie, edouard, campenon, 1819, tonnerre, march, 1891, neuilly, seine, french, general, politician, general, life, edithe, studied, École, spéciale, militaire, saint, graduating, october, 1840, sous, lieutenan. General Jean Baptiste Marie Edouard Campenon 5 May 1819 in Tonnerre 16 March 1891 in Neuilly sur Seine was a French general and politician General Jean Baptiste CampenonLife editHe studied at the Ecole speciale 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 senateur inamovible He also secretly translated The Perfumed Garden 1 Bibliography edit France Monde Le traducteur secret du Kama Sutra arabe etait un officier en poste a Lyon Le Progres Leprogres fr Retrieved 2012 12 26 G Vapereau Campenon Jean Baptiste Marie Edouard in Dictionnaire Universel Des Contemporains Paris Hachette 1880 p 10 OCLC 36982383Political officesPreceded byJean Joseph Farre Minister of War14 November 1881 26 January 1882 Succeeded byJean Baptiste BillotPreceded byJean Thibaudin Minister of War9 October 1883 3 January 1885 Succeeded byJules Louis LewalPreceded byJules Louis Lewal Minister of War6 April 1885 7 January 1886 Succeeded byGeorges Ernest Boulanger nbsp nbsp This biographical article related to the French military is a stub You can help Wikipedia by expanding it vte nbsp This article about a French politician is a stub You can help Wikipedia by expanding it vte Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Jean Baptiste Campenon amp oldid 1055621166, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,