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General Jean Baptiste Marie Edouard Campenon (5 May 1819 in Tonnerre – 16 March 1891 in
General Jean Baptiste Marie Edouard Campenon (5 May 1819 in Tonnerre – 16 March 1891 in Neuilly-sur-Seine
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) was a French general and politician.
Life
He studied at theÉcole spéciale militaire de Saint-Cyr
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, graduating on 1 October 1840 as a sous-lieutenant
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Australia
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. He took part in the Crimean War
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Geopolitical causes of the war included the de ...
, the French conquest of Algeria
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, 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
''The Perfumed Garden of Sensual Delight'' ( ar, الروض العاطر في نزهة الخاطر ''Al-rawḍ al-ʿāṭir fī nuzhaẗ al-ḫāṭir'') is a fifteenth-century Arabic sex manual and work of erotic literature by Muhammad ibn ...
''.
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