Faidherbe – Chaligny (Paris Métro)
Faidherbe may refer to: * ''Faidherbe'' (train), a former train in France * ST ''Faidherbe'', a Senegalese tugboat People with the surname * Henri Brosselard-Faidherbe (1855–1893), French military officer and explorer, the stepson of Louis Faidherbe * Louis Faidherbe Louis Léon César Faidherbe (; 3 June 1818 – 29 September 1889) was a French general and colonial administrator. He created the Senegalese Tirailleurs when he was governor of Senegal. Early life Faidherbe was born into a lower-middle-cla ...

Faidherbe (train)
The Faidherbe () was an express train that linked Gare du Nord in Paris, France, with Lille in the North of France. The train was named after the Lille born governor of Senegal, General Louis Faidherbe. One year before the creating of the TEE-network the French railway SNCF introduced three ''Trains d'affaires'' to link Paris Paris () is the Capital city, capital and List of communes in France with over 20,000 inhabitants, largest city of France. With an estimated population of 2,048,472 residents in January 2025 in an area of more than , Paris is the List of ci ... with the industrial area in the North near the Belgian border. This trains were scheduled with a morning, midday and evening service in both directions. Initially the service was operated with RGP 600 DMUs. In 1959 these were replaced by locomotive hauled trains consisting of Corail coaches. Although domestic TEE-services were allowed from 1965 the ''Trains d'affaires'' were not upgraded until 1978. Das gross ...
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Henri Brosselard-Faidherbe
Henri Brosselard-Faidherbe (1855–1893) was a French military officer and explorer. Biography Henri François Brosselard was born on 3 June 1855. On 30 October 1883 he married Mathilde-Marie Faidherbe, the daughter of General Louis Faidherbe. He was permitted to attach the surname of his father-in-law to his own. Brosselard was a member of the first expedition of Colonel Paul Flatters to explore a possible route for a Trans-Saharan railway. Later he wrote a book on this and the second expedition, which ended in disaster. He died on 19 August 1893 in Coutances, Manche at the age of 38. Works *''Les deux missions du Colonel Flatters en Afrique : récit historique et critique par un membre de la première mission'', Paris, Dreyfous, 1884 *''Rapport sur la situation dans la vallée du Sénégal en 1886 : insurrection de Mahmadou-Lamine'', 1888 *''La Guinée portugaise et les possessions françaises voisines'', Lille, 1889, 116 p. *''Les deux missions Flatters au pays des Touareg Azdj ...
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